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Selection of the Starship lunar lander. In 2021, NASA entered into a firm fixed-price contract with SpaceX valued at US$2.89 billion, spread over a number of years to develop and manufacture the Starship HLS lunar lander, [5] as well as the execution of two operational flights: an uncrewed demonstration mission and a crewed lunar landing. [36] [21]
On 16 April 2021, NASA selected only a single lander—Starship HLS—to move on to a full development contract. [19] NASA awarded a US$2.89 billion contract to SpaceX to develop the Starship HLS lander and to provide two operational lunar missions—one uncrewed demonstration mission, and one crewed lunar landing—as early as 2025.
NASA has rewarded Intuitive with a total of three more lander contracts, and the first of these (dubbed the IM-2 mission) is expected to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 sometime in Q1 this year. It ...
On April 16, 2021, NASA rejected Integrated Lander Vehicle and instead selected Starship HLS for crewed lunar lander development [5] plus the two lunar demonstration flights, in a contract valued at US$2.94 billion over several years. [13] [4] There were technical weaknesses identified in the Blue Origin proposal which was not selected ...
NASA on Thursday said it would split 967 million dollars among three companies - SpaceX owned by Elon Musk, Blue Origin owned by Jeff Bezos and Dynetics - in order to build lunar landing systems ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the U.S. space agency ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sued NASA, saying it wanted to "remedy flaws in the acquisition process" for the moon-lander contract, awarded to SpaceX.