Saturday, November 23, 2024

Colorado company Lunar Outpost announced today (Nov. 21) that it has chosen Starship to launch its new moon rover, known as Eagle, and land the wheeled vehicle on the lunar surface.




Lunar Outpost is working with Leidos, MDA Space, Goodyear and General Motors on Eagle. 

This "Lunar Dawn" team is one of three private groups that NASA picked this past April to develop a version of the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), the rover that the agency's Artemis astronauts will drive on the moon beginning in 2030 or so.

The other two teams are led by Intuitive Machines and Venturi Astrolab. That latter company also selected Starship to launch its LTV rover, known as FLEX ("Flexible Logistics and Exploration").

And NASA picked Starship to be Artemis' first crewed lander; it's currently scheduled to deliver agency astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time on the Artemis 3 mission, in late 2026.

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