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Ursa Major Technologies is developing the kerosene/HTP Draper engine with a thrust of 4,000 pounds-force (17.8 kilonewtons).
Ursa Major built a Draper-specific test stand with funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract awarded last year.
ispace U.S. is developing the APEX 1.0 lander under a contract with Draper for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission in 2026 designated M3 by ispace.
The APEX 1.0 lunar lander is designed to support the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services Task Order CP-12 by delivering NASA payloads to the lunar surface for scientific investigations.
ispace-U.S. will contribute to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver payloads for scientific investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
About 7,100,000,000 JPY of the funds will go toward various elements of Mission 3, a lander being developed by ispace U.S. for Draper.
ispace has $55,000,000 earmarked for Mission 3 as its share of the CLPS award to Draper.
The Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will land in the Schrödinger Basin near the Moon’s South Pole and is expected to launch in 2026.
Rhea Space Activity’s JAM modules will be flown in conjunction with ispace-U.S.’s contribution to the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to deliver Artemis science investigations to the far side of the Moon in 2026.
The Draper-led lunar lander mission will carry the APEX 1.0 lander that ispace U.S. will design and operate to the far side of the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Rhea Space Activity will fly two Jervis Autonomy Module (JAM) units on a Draper-led lunar lander mission scheduled to launch in 2026.
ispace U.S. is developing the APEX 1.0 lander for Mission 3 as a member of Team Draper for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Ursa Major developed Draper, a storable liquid engine designed to defend against hypersonic weapons.
APEX 1.0 is being used for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission led by Draper.
The first APEX 1.0 lander for the Draper CLPS mission is designated Mission 3 by ispace and is slated to launch in 2026.
NASA has pushed back the launch of Draper’s CLPS mission from 2025 to 2026 due to redesign efforts.
Draper is leading a team that includes ispace US, which is designing a new lunar lander called APEX 1.0.
The Draper-led NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission known to ispace as Mission 3 and to NASA as CP-12 was originally projected to launch in 2025 and has slipped to 2026 because of the lander redesign.
ispace – U.S. joined Team Draper in 2022 as the lunar lander design agent to deliver NASA-sponsored science and commercial payloads to the Moon’s far side under the CLPS program (CP-12 mission).
Ursa Major will build a dedicated test stand for the Draper engine and plans to hotfire the engine within 12 months.