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Firefly Aerospace has received a potential $93.3 million task order from NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to bring a suite of 10 technology demonstrations and science investigations to the lunar surface in 2023.

NASA is set to reveal the contractors it selected to develop human landing systems for a manned lunar mission in 2024. The space agency said Tuesday it will facilitate a teleconference on Thursday to make the announcement.

NASA is seeking landing system concepts that can support its goals of sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 and achieving sutainability on the lunar surface by 2028 through the Artemis program.

NASA has asked industry to propose platforms that will work to deliver science and technology payloads to the moon's surface as part of the on-ramping process for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

NASA has awarded nine companies positions on a potential 10-year, $2.6B contract to deliver scientific instruments and other payloads to the Moon. Contractors will compete for payload integration, operations and other delivery support services under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, NASA said Friday. The awardees are: Astrobotic Technology Deep Space …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 5, 2018 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has unveiled a new concept for a reusable spacecraft that could operate with NASA‘s planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in support of future crewed missions to the moon and Mars, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the single-stage lunar lander …