Draper Associates, founded by Tim Draper in 1985, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies with high potential, including those in the space industry. Their investments include SpaceX and Cognitive Space. They focus on companies with innovative approaches, strong network effects and are revolutionizing the space industry.
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Team Draper expects to launch and begin operations on the lunar surface in 2025 in fulfillment of NASA CLPS task order CP-12.
The CLPS task order awarded to Draper for the Schrödinger Basin mission is worth $73,000,000.
NASA selected a team led by Draper on 2022-07-21 for a 2025 mission to land in Schrödinger Basin on the lunar farside near the south pole.
Draper received a $73,000,000 contract from NASA to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
Draper will deliver three investigations on SERIES-2 that will collectively weigh about 94.8 kg (95 kg).
Draper calls the lander SERIES-2 and will deliver three experiments to Schrödinger Basin to collect seismic data, measure heat flow and electrical conductivity of the lunar subsurface, and measure electromagnetic phenomena created by solar wind and plasma interactions with the lunar surface.
Blue Canyon Technologies will build two satellites that the Draper mission will deploy before landing.
Draper expanded its role to operation and maintenance of the TAK platform as part of a contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
In the original Human Landing System competition that SpaceX won, Lockheed Martin was part of the National Team led by Blue Origin that also included Northrop Grumman and Draper.
Draper Associates invested $650,000 in Aquarian Space to support plans to deploy Aquarian Space’s first lunar satellite in the first quarter of 2024.
Aquarian Space raised a seed round led by Draper Associates.
Richard Linares is the Charles Stark Draper assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics and the director of ARCLab.
Alan Campbell is Program Manager, Space Systems Program Office at Draper and will present a keynote titled Exploring the Intersection of Technology at Geo Week on Sunday, 2022-02-06.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team competing in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program with ispace serving as a subcontractor and design agent to Draper.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.