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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]
In April 2021, NASA rejected the Dynetics HLS design and instead selected Starship HLS for crewed lunar lander development [6] plus the two lunar demonstration flights, in a contract valued at US$2.89 billion over several years. [5] There were technical weaknesses identified in the Dynetics proposal which was not selected but also budgetary ...
The Advanced Exploration Lander was a 2018 NASA concept for a three-stage lander, intended to serve as a design reference for the commercial HLS design proposals. After departing from the Lunar Gateway in its lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), a transfer module would take the lander and embarked crew to a low lunar orbit and then separate.
A commercial lunar lander will soon be heading to the moon with a fleet of scientific instruments on board for a $93.3 million NASA mission to study the moon's environment before humans return.
The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known as "Blue Ghost," is carrying 10 sophisticated instruments for NASA while the Japanese spacecraft, built by Tokyo-based ...
A new year of lunar exploration kicked off early Wednesday, when two robotic landers and a small rover began their journeys to the moon. A SpaceX rocket lifted off at 1:11 a.m. ET from NASA’s ...
NASA selected a Nova-C mission for CLPS task order CP-11. [61] It will deliver payloads to the lunar swirl in the Reiner Gamma region. [62] In August 2021, Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its third lunar mission, IM-3. [13] As of August 2024, the launch of IM-3 is expected to take place no earlier than October 2025.
The Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) was a human spaceflight lunar lander design concept proposed in 2020/21 for the NASA Human Landing System (HLS) component of the Artemis program. Blue Origin was the lead contractor for the multi-element lunar lander that was to include major components from several large US government space contractors ...