SpaceX has been selected to launch a Firefly Aerospace-built lunar lander in 2023 using the Falcon 9 rocket for NASA’s mission to land science and technology payloads on the moon’s surface. Firefly said Thursday it will use the Blue Ghost spacecraft to deploy 10 technologies for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, as part of […] More
Firefly Aerospace has raised $75 million in a round of Series A financing led by DADA Holdings and $100 million through a secondary transaction that includes the sale of holdings owned by its major investor Noosphere Ventures. Astera Institute, Canon Ball and other investors participated in the Series A round, which gives Firefly a valuation of more than $1 billion.
Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to deploy a lunar lander that will carry an ice drilling instrument and a mass spectrometer as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Intuitive Machines is slated to launch its Nova-C lunar lander aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to carry five NASA payloads to the moon in 2021 under the Artemis program.
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA's robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Some industry executives have said that NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,“ said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of Paragon Space Development, which teams […] More
