
analysisMay 28, 2026
NASA's Moon Base Phase One: Rovers, Landers and Drones (2026)
NASA's $749M Moon Base Phase One — Astrolab CLV-1 and Lunar Outpost Pegasus rovers, Blue Moon Mk1 LTV delivery, and Firefly's MoonFall hopper drones.

NASA's $749M Moon Base Phase One — Astrolab CLV-1 and Lunar Outpost Pegasus rovers, Blue Moon Mk1 LTV delivery, and Firefly's MoonFall hopper drones.

From near-bankruptcy to a Nasdaq IPO and a successful Moon landing: Firefly's Alpha, Blue Ghost, and the new Eclipse medium-lift partnership with Northrop Grumman.

Space startups to watch beyond SpaceX and Blue Origin: Firefly (now public), Relativity, Stoke, Vast, Impulse, Astrobotic, ispace, Varda and more — flying hardware, winning contracts.

The companies defining space in 2025: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Intuitive Machines, Axiom, Sierra Space, Relativity, Firefly, and Astrobotic's lunar landings.