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|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Blue Origin | ISRO | JAXA |
| Prime contractor | Blue Origin (with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic, Honeybee Robotics on prime team) | ISRO | Mitsubishi Electric |
| Status | In development | Landed | Landed |
| Customer | NASA-HLS | ISRO | JAXA |
| Launch date | 2030 (NET — Artemis V crewed); uncrewed demo 2027 | 2023-07-14 | 2023-09-06 |
| Landing date | — | 2023-08-23 | 2024-01-19 |
| Landing site | Lunar south pole — 30-day surface stays | Statio Shiv Shakti, 69.37°S — first soft landing near lunar south pole | Near Shioli crater, Mare Nectaris (~10 m precision vs 100 m target) |
| Payload | 20 t reusable / 30 t one-way to surface; crew 2-4 for up to 30 days (2026-01-04) | Pragyan rover 27 kg + lander Vikram 1,749 kg (2023-08-23) | LEV-1 (2.1 kg hopper) + LEV-2 'SORA-Q' (0.25 kg sphere) (2024-01-19) |
| Contract value | $3.4B (2023-05-19) | ₹6.15B (~$75M USD) (2023-07-14) | — |
| Outcome | Selected May 2023 as second HLS provider for sustained Artemis-era lunar operations. Full-scale prototype delivered to NASA Johnson Space Center in early 2026 for astronaut training. Completed third pressurized suit-test campaign with NASA Johnson's Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS). | First soft landing near the lunar south pole and first lunar landing by ISRO. Pragyan rover traversed ~100 m over 10 lunar days, confirmed sulfur, aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon, oxygen at the landing site. Lander 'hopped' to a secondary location demonstrating reusable propulsion. | First Japanese soft landing; made Japan the 5th nation to soft-land on the Moon. One of two main engines failed at ~50 m altitude; lander touched down on its side but still met 100-m precision goal. Survived four lunar-night cycles despite not being designed for it; declared concluded 2024-08-23. |
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