{"id":509327,"date":"2024-11-24T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/?p=509327"},"modified":"2024-11-24T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T20:07:41","slug":"nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN \u2014 NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers under development by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the lunar surface in the early 2030s.<\/p>

NASA announced it will add work to existing contracts for development of cargo versions of Blue Origin\u2019s Blue Moon and SpaceX\u2019s Starship to deliver payloads to the surface of the moon, the first such awards since the agency announced in January that it was directing the two companies to work on cargo versions of their Human Landing System (HLS) spacecraft.<\/p>

NASA said Starship will deliver no earlier than fiscal year 2032 the pressurized rover that the Japanese space agency JAXA is developing under an agreement announced in April. Blue Moon will deliver a lunar surface habitat no sooner than fiscal year 2033.<\/p>

\u201cBased on current design and development progress for both crew and cargo landers and the Artemis mission schedules for the crew lander versions, NASA assigned a pressurized rover mission for SpaceX and a lunar habitat delivery for Blue Origin,\u201d Lisa Watson-Morgan, NASA HLS program manager, said in a Nov. 19 statement.<\/p>

NASA did not disclose the value of the impending awards to the two companies for those missions. NASA said in its statement that it will issue a request for proposals to the two companies in early 2025 for those missions, and didn\u2019t explain why it announced the planned awards months in advance.<\/p>

The agency also did not disclose why it selected each company for its specific cargo mission. \u201cHaving two lunar lander providers with different approaches for crew and cargo landing capability provides mission flexibility while ensuring a regular cadence of moon landings for continued discovery and scientific opportunity,\u201d Steve Creech, NASA assistant deputy associate administrator for technical in the Moon to Mars Program Office, said in the statement.<\/p>

NASA revealed in January that it had directed the two companies to start work on cargo versions of their HLS landers<\/a>. The agency said then that the landers are designed to deliver a minimum of 12 to 15 metric tons to the lunar surface, far more than the robotic landers the agency uses in its ongoing Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for delivery of science and technology demonstration payloads.<\/p>

NASA said in January that initial work on the cargo versions of Blue Moon and Starship would be done under existing HLS awards and would not require additional funding.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers under development by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the lunar surface in the early 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10940,"featured_media":509328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4152,4148,4161],"tags":[2980,4758,1132,3598,3264,782,786,2836],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[544],"class_list":["post-509327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil1","category-commercial-archive","category-news-archive","tag-artemis","tag-blue-moon","tag-blue-origin","tag-hls","tag-human-landing-system","tag-nasa","tag-spacex","tag-starship","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nNASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX - SpaceNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the moon.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeff Foust\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7a713ded6ab38a8b78c4e0cfcc90ec1f\"},\"headline\":\"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-24T20:07:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-24T20:07:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\"},\"wordCount\":413,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Artemis\",\"Blue Moon\",\"Blue Origin\",\"HLS\",\"Human Landing System\",\"NASA\",\"SpaceX\",\"Starship\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Civil\",\"Commercial\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\",\"name\":\"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX - SpaceNews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-11-24T20:07:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-24T20:07:41+00:00\",\"description\":\"NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the moon.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1\",\"width\":1430,\"height\":409,\"caption\":\"Cargo versions of SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/\",\"name\":\"SpaceNews\",\"description\":\"Covering the business and politics of space\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"SpaceNews\",\"alternateName\":\"SN\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/logo2x2.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/logo2x2.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1\",\"width\":200,\"height\":200,\"caption\":\"SpaceNews\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpaceNewsInc\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceNews_Inc\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/668857\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceNews_Inc\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7a713ded6ab38a8b78c4e0cfcc90ec1f\",\"name\":\"Jeff Foust\",\"description\":\"Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The Space Review, a weekly publication of long-form articles and commentary on a wide range of space topics.Foust has previously written for a number of other publications, including Ad Astra, Astronomy Now, National Geographic News, and Sky & Telescope.He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and a B.S. with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology in 1993.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeff_foust\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX - SpaceNews","description":"NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the moon.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff Foust","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7a713ded6ab38a8b78c4e0cfcc90ec1f"},"headline":"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX","datePublished":"2024-11-24T20:07:38+00:00","dateModified":"2024-11-24T20:07:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/"},"wordCount":413,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1","keywords":["Artemis","Blue Moon","Blue Origin","HLS","Human Landing System","NASA","SpaceX","Starship"],"articleSection":["Civil","Commercial","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/","url":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/","name":"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX - SpaceNews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1","datePublished":"2024-11-24T20:07:38+00:00","dateModified":"2024-11-24T20:07:41+00:00","description":"NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers by Blue Origin and SpaceX to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the moon.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1","width":1430,"height":409,"caption":"Cargo versions of SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-make-lunar-cargo-delivery-awards-to-blue-origin-and-spacex\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/","name":"SpaceNews","description":"Covering the business and politics of space","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#organization","name":"SpaceNews","alternateName":"SN","url":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/logo2x2.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/logo2x2.jpg?fit=200%2C200&ssl=1","width":200,"height":200,"caption":"SpaceNews"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpaceNewsInc\/","https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceNews_Inc","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/668857\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceNews_Inc"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/7a713ded6ab38a8b78c4e0cfcc90ec1f","name":"Jeff Foust","description":"Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The Space Review, a weekly publication of long-form articles and commentary on a wide range of space topics.Foust has previously written for a number of other publications, including Ad Astra, Astronomy Now, National Geographic News, and Sky & Telescope.He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and a B.S. with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology in 1993.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/jeff_foust"],"url":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cargolanders.jpg?fit=1430%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509329,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509327\/revisions\/509329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509327"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=509327"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=509327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}