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MSU Project Headed To The Moon In 2023 A lunar lander called Blue Ghost will touch down on the Earths Moon in 2023, carrying with it a Montana State University experiment on how outer space radiation affects computers. Marshall Swearingen of MSU News reported that RadPC has already been tested in Earth orbit and on the International Space Station. NASA had earlier accepted the project as part of a payload headed toward the lunar surface, but a schedule this past week gives the Bozeman, Montana,...

Blue Origin employees stand next to a pathfinder version of a cargo lunar lander. (Blue Origin via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is testing a full-scale prototype of its cargo lunar lander, as part of its campaign to get a jump on heavy-duty deliveries to the moon. In a video posted today to Twitter and Instagram, members of Blue Origin’s lander development team provided a status report on their efforts. The pathfinder lander has been taking shape at the factory ...

NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace to Conduct Commercial Moon Missions in 2023

Austin company is on a mission to the moon with $93M NASA contract NASA has tapped Firefly Aerospace, headquartered in Austin, to land science equipment on the moon.  Courtesy of Firefly Aerospace. A local aerospace company is over the moon about its latest endeavor: a NASA-funded project to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar surface. NASA recently awarded rocket-maker Firefly Aerospace $93.3 million to deliver a suite of science and technology demonstrations and equipment to the moo...

SpaceX will launch NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics mission, the agency announced Feb. 4. The launch contract is worth $98.9 million, including launch service and other mission-related costs. The mission is targeted for June 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SPHEREx — Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer — is a two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-in...

NASA has awarded Texas-based Firefly Aerospace approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the

autoevolution 6 Feb 2021, 10:39 UTC · by The Artemis Moon exploration program is a multi-tiered one. The most spectacular and visible of these tiers is, of course, the planned return of astronauts to the satellite. Yet the scope of Artemis is not simply to get people there and back, but establish a long-term human presence. 1 photo For that to happen, NASA needs some serious help, and the agency was not afraid to ask. Unlike the Apollo program of the 1970s, this one will be seriously bac...

Firefly will light up the moon with $93M lunar lander contract from NASA NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself, it will be providing the spacecraft and “Blue Ghost” lander for the 2023 mission. The space agency made the award as part of its ongoing Commercial Lunar Payload Services, under which several other non-prime space compan...

Washington, February 5 NASA has awarded Texas-based Firefly Aerospace approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023.

NASA awards $93.3 million to Firefly Aerospace for moon mission technology Shane McGlaun - Feb 5, 2021, 5:02am CST Although it’s not exactly clear if NASA will hit its 2024 timeline for returning humans to the moon under the new presidential administration, NASA is moving forward with technologies required for the moon mission. NASA has announced that it has awarded Firefly Aerospace approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology ...