Z-01 – Spaceflight Now

September 18, 2019

Breaking News

[ September 17, 2019 ] Hayabusa 2 completes practice run for deployment of last asteroid lander Mission Reports
[ September 16, 2019 ] NASA, ESA officials seek formal approvals for Mars sample return mission News
[ September 12, 2019 ] NASA lunar orbiter to image Chandrayaan 2 landing site Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2019 ] SES selects SpaceX for two Falcon 9 launches Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2019 ] China launches Earth-observing satellites, solar sail experiment 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.