NASA Viper Lunar Rover Blue Origin can be delivered to Moon by the Aerospace Company of Jeff Bezos. There are US space agencies Reward A task order organization to design a distribution plan for Rover with future distribution options.
The reward worth $ 1 million was issued through NASA Commercial Lunar Pay -Load Services (CLP) ProgramWhich is using the agency to buy distribution services on the moon from private companies. The reward does not directly imply a distribution agreement; First, NASA will verify that the blue source will verify whether the South Pole of Moon is able to successfully send the expensive viper Rover. To be eligible to accept the viper delivery, the company must set up its Blue Moon MK 1 lunar lander – a NASA technology on the lunar surface at the end of 2025 is fully paid.
Blue Origin won this deal to send Moon Cargo in 2023 and designed Blue Moon MK 1 to complete it. In this mission, it will carry NASA stereo camera that will conduct surface surveys in addition to small spheres equipped with laser technology for mission tracking.
“There is an option to supply and safely deploy the rover on the surface of the Moon. After the NASA base task is effective and reviewed and the Blue Moon will decide to apply this option after the first aircraft of Blue Moon MK 1 Lander,” the agency said StatementThe
NASA Award on the same day, with the declaration of blue sources Wrote x: “Our second Blue Moon MK 1 Lander is already in production and is suitable to support Viper Rover. The building on learning from our first MK 1 Lander, this mission is important for the moon’s lunar stability and will teach about the source and distribution of water on our moon.”
Vicer – which refers to the Polar Explosion Rover investigator, NAS scientists designed to explore the south pole of the moon for other ice and other interests of interest. It is about 2.5 meters long, weight is about 500 kilograms and it has a meter drill and three scientific instruments. The car was supposed to be launched in 2023, just to push that date back. Then, in the face of growing expenditure and more delay, it was NASA on July 2024 that it was Rejected Mission. The CLPS Award in the Blue Origin now seems to have recovered the program.
With the advent of private space agencies, mission managers are likely to reduce the traditional cost of space search when allowing focus on scientific issues. Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and SpaceX Holy are a number of companies that have emerged in this sector and have won the CLPS contract with NASA.
“NASA is leading the world in more exploration of the moon than ever, and this distribution we are earning US industry to support long -term American presence on the lunar surface,” StatementThe “Our Rover Chandra will look for the extreme environment of the South Pole, to inform us of the future landing sites for our innovators and to understand the moon environment better – America is an important insight to sustain people as they move towards our future.”
This story was originally attended Wired N aspaol And have been translated from Spanish.