Surface mobility (rover)In developmentTrust: Agency-primaryLast verified
FLEX (LTV — Ignition build contract winner)
Prime contractor: Venturi Astrolab
Project facts
- Prime contractor
- Venturi Astrolab
- Competing contractors
- Lunar Outpost, Intuitive Machines
- Award date
- First-use target
- Lunar delivery NET 2030 (program rescoped under March 2026 Ignition awards)
- Contract value
- $219M 'Ignition' build contractas of [3]Awarded March 2026 in the rescoped LTV downselect; original April 2024 feasibility task order sat under a $1.928B IDIQ ceiling (highest of the 3 competitors)
Customers
NASA LTV
Overview
Astrolab's FLEX rover team includes Axiom Space, Odyssey Space Research, Leidos, and Venturi Group. Selected in NASA's March 2026 'Ignition' downselect as one of two LTV build-contract winners ($219M), alongside Lunar Outpost. A smaller Astrolab rover (FLIP) flies separately on Astrobotic's Griffin Mission 1 under CLPS.
Source bibliography
- [1]Wikipedia (NASA-sourced)retrievedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Terrain_Vehicle
- [2]Venturi Astrolabretrievedhttps://www.astrolab.space/flex-rover
- [3]Payloadretrievedhttps://payloadspace.com/nasa-awards-ltv-lunar-transport-contracts/
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