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Private companies for flights to the moon

01.06.2019

NASA has selected three private companies that will take care of flights to the moon and deliver equipment to the surface as part of the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) project. Delivery of cargo to the moon on a commercial basis is part of the Artemis lunar program, according to the website of the aerospace agency.

For the first phase of the CLPS project, nine companies of various sizes were selected, from startups participating in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition to large aerospace corporations. The mission of CLPS is to promote the development of lunar landers and commercial lunar delivery services. From among the initial applicants for contracts, NASA had to choose companies that would carry out the full cycle of delivering cargo to the Moon: from launch to landing.

Now the agency has decided on the companies that will receive contracts, and also called the estimated time frame. Astrobotic Technology (the company received $79,5 million) will deliver cargo to the Lake of Death until July 2021, by the same time Intuitive Machines ($77 million) will land the device in the Ocean of Storms, and Orbit Beyond's lander ($97 million) will land on the moon in the Sea of Rains until September 2020.

In February, NASA published a preliminary list of possible lunar experiments, and by the end of the summer of 2019, the agency Head of NASA James Bridenstine noted that scientific instruments will appear on the surface of the moon next year and this will help to send people back to the moon within five years, and on this Since it is planned that one of the astronauts will be a woman.

Before the end of this summer, the agency will decide how to distribute the equipment among the companies that will deliver it to the moon. A NASA press release specifically states that the original nine companies that participated in the first phase of CLPS will also be able to participate in the development of scientific instruments and instruments that will go to the moon.

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