05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
...contract to SpaceX for the development of a lunar lander. The justification for the ruling was not immediately made public,... selection of SpaceX to develop and demonstrate a modern human lunar lander. NASA will resume work with SpaceX under the Option A ...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... the ESA Technical Officer for the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS), scheduled for flight on the US Astrobotic M1 lunar lander mission to Lacus Mortis in 2021. Dr Trautner gained his PhD and MSc degrees from Technical University of Graz...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
... each year through sales of his Amazon shares, unveiled a mock-up of Blue Origin’s aptly named Blue Moon lunar lander at this small invite-only event. “It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay,” Bezos said, as he stood...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
...Ghost Riders in the Sky’ is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and sets the tone for the...CEO of Firefly Aerospace. “Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface with 10 NASA payloads and a ...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... of the others, said NASA chief Bridenstine of SpaceX’s design. The giant lander, which is so tall that astronauts will use an elevator to get to and from the lunar surface, could be an absolute game-changer, so we don’t want to discount it explained...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... contributing to a rapidly growing sector encompassing everything from suborbital space tourism to commercial space stations and even lunar landers. Key to this is the increasing number of companies from small and emerging space nations in the realm...
