Author: Loren Grush
Japanese startup ispace, which has grand ambitions of creating a lunar base, says it is teaming up with three other aerospace companies to conduct regular missions to the surface of the Moon for NASA. All four companies, one with experience navigating the Apollo missions to the Moon, will contribute their personal area of expertise in order to design, build, and launch a spacecraft that can land on lunar soil.
The four companies have come together to compete in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS). It’s the space agency’s initiative to send small, robotic lunar landers, made by private companies, to the Moon. It’s meant to be the first in a series of programs that NASA will do to stimulate the creation of lunar...
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Japanese startup ispace, which has grand ambitions of creating a lunar base, says it is teaming up with three other aerospace companies to conduct regular missions to the surface of the Moon for NASA. All four companies, one with experience navigating the Apollo missions to the Moon, will contribute their personal area of expertise in order to design, build, and launch a spacecraft that can land on lunar soil.
The four companies have come together to compete in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS). It’s the space agency’s initiative to send small, robotic lunar landers, made by private companies, to the Moon. It’s meant to be the first in a series of programs that NASA will do to stimulate the creation of lunar...
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