Tag: Orbit Beyond
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NASA terminates lunar lander contract with OrbitBeyond
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) with new CLPS on-ramp announcement. OrbitBeyond’s Z-01 lunar lander. Credit: OrbitBeyond NASA has terminated a $97 million contract with OrbitBeyond, a New Jersey-based company with plans to build robotic moon landers in Florida, just two months after announcing an agreement to send science instruments to the lunar…
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NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moon
Artist’s concept of Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. Credit: Astrobotic NASA has announced that Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond won contracts to deliver science instruments and technology demonstration payloads to the moon’s surface in the first of a series of robotic missions preceding a human return to the moon. The three companies are developing commercial lunar…
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NASA picks first commercial ventures to deliver scientific payloads to the moon
An artist’s conception shows a lunar lander with scientific payloads. (NASA Illustration) Update for 6 p.m. PT July 31: One of the commercial ventures selected to deliver science experiments to the moon’s surface, New Jersey-based Orbit Beyond, is bowing out of the first round of deliveries. NASA said Orbit Beyond ran into “internal corporate challenges”…