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September 23, 2021

Breaking News

[ September 22, 2021 ] NASA completes swing arm test on SLS launch platform Mission Reports
[ September 21, 2021 ] Landsat 9 lifted atop launcher to extend unbroken environmental data record Atlas 5
[ September 20, 2021 ] Photos: Inspiration4 launches from Kennedy Space Center Falcon 9
[ September 20, 2021 ] Tianzhou ship launches and docks with Chinese space station Mission Reports
[ September 18, 2021 ] Four civilian space travelers back on Earth after landmark flight Mission Reports

NASA terminates lunar lander contract with OrbitBeyond

July 30, 2019

NASA has terminated a $97 million contract with OrbitBeyond, a New Jersey-based company with plans to build robotic moon landers in Florida, just two months after announcing an agreement to send science instruments to the lunar surface as soon as next year.

NASA picks three companies to send commercial landers to the moon

June 4, 2019

NASA has announced that Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond won contracts to deliver science instruments and technology demonstration payloads to the moon’s surface in the first of a series of robotic missions preceding a human return to the moon.