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Lunar Dawn (LTV — Ignition build contract winner)
Prime contractor: Lunar Outpost
Project facts
- Prime contractor
- Lunar Outpost
- Competing contractors
- Venturi Astrolab, Intuitive Machines
- Award date
- First-use target
- Lunar delivery NET 2030 (program rescoped under March 2026 Ignition awards)
- Contract value
- $220M 'Ignition' build contractas of [3]Awarded March 2026 in the rescoped LTV downselect; original April 2024 feasibility task order sat under a $1.727B IDIQ ceiling
Customers
NASA LTV
Overview
Lunar Outpost-led team includes Lockheed Martin, General Motors, Goodyear, and MDA. The Lunar Dawn rover targets unpressurized crew + autonomous payload service for NASA at the lunar south pole. Selected in NASA's March 2026 'Ignition' downselect as one of two LTV build-contract winners ($220M), alongside Astrolab; Intuitive Machines was not selected.
Source bibliography
- [1]Wikipedia (NASA-sourced)retrievedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Terrain_Vehicle
- [2]Lunar Outpostretrievedhttps://www.lunaroutpost.com/lunar-dawn
- [3]Payloadretrievedhttps://payloadspace.com/nasa-awards-ltv-lunar-transport-contracts/
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