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MSU Project Headed To The Moon In 2023 A lunar lander called Blue Ghost will touch down on the Earth's 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, project team some definite deadlines to put together the finishing touches. Brock LaMeres, Departm...

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 that Blue Origin recently opened in Huntsville, Ala. That factory is responsible for manufacturing t...

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 moon in 2023. The award is part of a NASA initiative — and key to its moon-focused Artemis program �...

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-infrared light. NASA said the mission will also search for water and organic molecules in stellar nurs...