NASA Awards $10B in Contracts for Moon Base Cargo, Nuclear Rover
The six-wheeled rover will drill below the surface and use nuclear power to survive long lunar nights, NASA said.
- NASA announced on Saturday that PROMISE, a rover previously supporting Mars missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will launch to the lunar south pole for an 18-month mission.
- Built from spare flight components from Curiosity and Perseverance, the rover is powered by a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator using fuel processed 30 years ago for the Cassini mission, allowing it to survive the frigid lunar night.
- PROMISE will launch on Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark lander aboard a New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, with mission costs projected under $400 million, and includes a drill to extract regolith from about 3 feet below the surface.
- Moon Base program manager Carlos García-Galán said NASA is transitioning to CLPS 2.0, where the agency buys rockets and orbital transfer vehicles directly to maintain oversight and ensure a steady flow of moonbound missions.
- Six additional task orders were awarded to Intuitive Machines, SpaceX, and Advanced Space for communications satellites that will orbit the moon and cislunar space, providing navigation and communications data for future lunar missions.
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President Trump’s NASA Launches $10 Billion Moon Base Delivery Push
President Trump’s NASA just put real money, real contracts, and real machinery behind America’s return to the Moon. The agency announced a sweeping new round of Moon Base awards Saturday that covers cargo landers, orbital transportation, communications, surface power, scouting drones, and a nuclear-powered rover built to work through the brutal lunar night. NASA is assembling the freight network and basic infrastructure American astronauts will …
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