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NASA
NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations
NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager Lunar Systems are working toward delivering landers by 2028. These landers will deliver the foundational…
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Voyager awarded $298M NASA contract under completed Astrobotic acquisition
Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has completed its acquisition of Astrobotic Technology, Inc. The close comes as NASA recently awarded two new lunar lander missions to the company and Griffin Mission One shipped to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for environmental testing ahead of launch later this year.”As America marks 250 years, the next chapter of this nation’s leadership begins on the…
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NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology
July 8, 2026 C.13 NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology NASA has selected seven companies for contract awards under the Mars Exploration Program’s Science Transport and Robotic Innovation for Deployment and Exploration, or STRIDE, initiative to advance next-generation commercial robotic surface mobility for future Mars exploration. The STRIDE awards will support the development of innovative robotic mobility…
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NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities
Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify the engineering development version for the PROMISE rover. NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines will deliver NASA science payloads to the…
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Astrobotic Awarded 2 NASA Contracts for CLPS Moon Base Missions
Astrobotic has been selected by NASA to deliver a suite of agency payloads to the lunar surface under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in support of NASA’s Moon Base. These Moon Base task order awards will fly two Peregrine lunar landers to the Moon by the end of 2028.”Each mission has moved us closer to routine lunar access,” said…
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Press Releases
Astrobotic Showcases Griffin-1 Lunar Lander Ahead of Environmental Testing
Astrobotic today unveiled its Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1) lunar lander, recently designated by NASA as Moon Base II, during a visit by NASA representatives, government officials, and industry partners at the company’s headquarters in Pittsburgh. The spacecraft is completing final integration activities and is scheduled to launch in late 2026.Griffin-1 is being developed as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload…
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Astrobotic to Join Voyager Technologies, Accelerating America’s Moon Base
Astrobotic Technology, Inc., America’s pioneer in commercial lunar delivery, lunar power, reusable rocketry, today announced it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG). The transaction marks a major milestone in Astrobotic’s nearly two‑decade mission to make the Moon accessible and to build the infrastructure needed for a continuous U.S. presence on the lunar surface.Under…
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Astrobotic and CMU Advance Nav System for Lunar Surface Ops
Astrobotic, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has successfully completed Phase II of its NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project for Distributed Agent Localization Estimation for spaceCraft (DALEC), advancing the system from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to TRL 5. DALEC is designed to provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities in environments where GPS is unavailable, including…
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Astrobotic has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space to develop the Lunar Wheel for the Italian Space Agency’s Multi-Purpose Habitation Mobility System
Astrobotic today announced its award of a contract from Thales Alenia Space (JV between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%) to develop a lunar wheel assembly solution for the Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH). MPH is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) program, developed in partnership with NASA as a core element of the Artemis architecture, designed to allow astronauts to live on the…
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Astrobotic Secures $17.5M to Advance Reusable Rockets
Astrobotic announced today that it has been awarded three contracts totaling $17.5 million to advance the next generation of its reusable rocket systems. The awards will accelerate development of both its Xodiac and Xogdor platforms, with three distinct vehicles in development. Together, these vehicles will strengthen suborbital flight test capabilities and expand access to high-frequency, low-cost, reusable rocket testing. The…
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