"Just from the human landing system standpoint, we had 27 functional performance requirements that we asked the offers, including SpaceX, to respond to," Watson-Morgan told during the conference. Many of the prototypes have so far crashed and exploded, with SN10, its 10th Starship prototype being the first to land (though it exploded shortly after landing). SpaceX is already on its 15th Starship prototype and has been regularly testing the craft. The $2.9 billion contract carries roughly 13% of the amount that NASA's lunar module would have cost for the agency's Apollo program, which would have cost about $23 billion in 2020, Casey Dreier, Chief Advocate & Senior Space Policy Advisor at The Planetary Society, estimated on Twitter.įor its lunar lander design, SpaceX has pitched a variation on its Starship spacecraft. We don't anticipate revisiting this selection." When asked if, down the road, NASA might reevaluate having a second company build a lunar lander, Jurczyk said that "we're moving forward. In response, SpaceX updated the cost of their lander to fit "within NASA's current budget." While NASA wanted "to preserve a competitive environment at this stage of the HLS Program," the agency said in a document obtained by The Washington Post, there were budgetary concerns. However, they have chosen to go ahead with SpaceX alone. NASA was expected to choose two of the three companies in the running to build the lander, as the agency often has multiple providers to ensure a backup and to keep the energy of competition.
More: SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy rocket in pictures "The NASA team will have the insight into the progress that SpaceX is making and if they're hitting their milestones we may have a shot at 2024," acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said during the conference. This goal was set to happen by 2024 under the Trump administration but the Biden administration has not yet specified whether it will stick to this very ambitious deadline. "When NASA returns to the moon with Artemis program, it will go in a way that reflects the world today," Leuders said. our goal is to return to the moon in a sustainable way to gain insight and bring back lessons that will help propel us into greater exploration that's never been done before," Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said during the news conference. This will be the first time humans will walk on the moon since 1972, with the final lunar landing mission of NASA's Apollo program.īut "this time. There should be others in short order afterward, however several other private moon landers are readying for launch in the coming months, including Nova-C by Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic's Peregrine.With its Artemis program, NASA aims to land the first woman and the first person of color to land on the moon. (In 2019, the Beresheet lunar lander by SpaceIL of Israel crashed during its landing attempt.) That would be a huge milestone, the first-ever successful soft lunar touchdown by a private lander. HAKUTO-R is scheduled to land on the moon this coming April, after which it will deploy a small rover called Rashid for the United Arab Emirates. "Once the lander has navigated deep space for one month, it will have achieved Mission 1 Milestone Success 5, at which point an announcement is expected to be made." 11, 2022, the lander has maintained stable navigation in accordance with the mission plan," ispace said in the statement.
20, will then perform a third thruster firing to help fine-tune its trajectory in order to enter orbit around the moon.
The mission, which will reach its farthest distance from Earth (860,000 miles, or 1.4 million km) on Jan.
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