| Astrobotic, as part of the Blue Origin National Team, announced Friday a contract win for NASA’s Artemis program to develop and provide human and large cargo lunar landing services to support America’s return to crewed exploration of the Moon. |
| For the National Team, Astrobotic will provide the cargo accommodation system, which in concert with Blue Origin’s lander, allows for safe landing and operation of mission critical, very large cargo like astronaut habitats or pressurized rovers. Astrobotic will also support the development of lunar landing sensors. |
| “Astrobotic is thrilled to continue leveraging our 16 years of lunar-centric capabilities with Blue Origin’s National Team. This is truly a powerhouse group dedicated to America’s vision of bringing humans back to the Moon. Our goal of making space accessible to the world started with robotic lunar missions across our four lander and rover missions, and now extends to astronauts. Astrobotic is ready to do its part to further human presence on the lunar surface,” says John Thornton, Astrobotic CEO. |
| The contract to develop a sustainable human landing system for the Artemis V Moon mission was awarded to Blue Origin and includes Astrobotic, Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, and Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics subsidiary. Under Artemis, NASA human landing system will take astronauts to and from Gateway in lunar orbit to the surface and back to the lunar space station as part of NASA’s return to the Moon for science, exploration, and inspiration. |
| About Astrobotic Astrobotic is the Moon company and more. We develop advanced navigation, operation, power, testing, and computing systems for spacecraft. Our fleet of lunar landers and rovers deliver payloads to the Moon for companies, governments, universities, non-profits, and individuals. To date, we have two fully funded lunar lander missions on the books, and more than 60 prior and ongoing NASA and commercial technology contracts worth upwards of $450 million. Astrobotic was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. www.astrobotic.com |
