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| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Blue Origin | ispace |
| Prime contractor | Blue Origin (with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic, Honeybee Robotics on prime team) | ispace |
| Status | In development | Lost |
| Customer | NASA-HLS | private |
| Launch date | 2030 (NET — Artemis V crewed); uncrewed demo 2027 | 2022-12-11 |
| Landing date | — | 2023-04-25 |
| Landing site | Lunar south pole — 30-day surface stays | Atlas crater, Mare Frigoris (planned; impacted at altitude ~5 km) |
| Payload | 20 t reusable / 30 t one-way to surface; crew 2-4 for up to 30 days (2026-01-04) | Rashid rover (10 kg, UAE/MBRSC) + Sora-Q (0.25 kg, JAXA) + commercial (2023-04-25) |
| Contract value | $3.4B (2023-05-19) | — |
| 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). | Travelled ~1.4M km — at the time, furthest a privately funded spacecraft had flown. Software flagged the radar altimeter as faulty after the lander crossed a crater rim cliff and ignored its readings. Lander ran out of fuel hovering ~5 km above surface and free-fell. |
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