OrbitBeyond is a lunar transportation, infrastructure, and exploration services company, and a NASA CLPS contractor. They are focused on providing reliable and affordable payload delivery services to the Moon and cislunar space for both public and private sector clients, with their first lunar mission (OB1) planned for 2026. OrbitBeyond develops lunar landers and related infrastructure, including lunar 5G networks and edge computing solutions, and is working on multi-purpose vehicles for lunar orbit applications like relay communications and mineral mapping. Key partners include Spin.Works, and they have previously collaborated with TeamIndus and Honeybee Robotics.
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The multi-purpose vehicles developed by OrbitBeyond and Spin.Works will be used at the Moon for relay communication services.
OrbitBeyond Inc. has partnered with Spin.Works to develop a set of multi-purpose vehicles for deployment in lunar orbit and for potential exploration of other planetary and small body targets.
OrbitBeyond and Spin.Works expect the incremental development of these capabilities to take place over the next three to five years and represent an investment of more than $100,000,000.
The multi-purpose vehicles developed by OrbitBeyond and Spin.Works will be used at the Moon for mineral mapping to pinpoint valuable resources on the lunar surface, including helium-3 (He3).
OrbitBeyond won a CLPS task order in May 2019 worth $97,000,000 and terminated the award two months later citing internal corporate challenges.
OrbitBeyond canceled its CLPS task order two months after receiving the award, citing internal business issues.
NASA awarded CLPS task orders in May 2020 to Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and OrbitBeyond for lunar lander missions.
NASA awarded Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond awards in May to carry as many as 23 payloads to the surface of the moon on three commercial missions scheduled for launch between September 2020 and July 2021.
OrbitBeyond planned to build its landers at a facility in Florida.
OrbitBeyond planned to launch its Z-01 lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in September 2020.
NASA provided OrbitBeyond $25,000 for technical interface information, the same amount provided to the other CLPS companies.
OrbitBeyond terminated its nearly $100,000,000 contract with NASA for a Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order on 2020-07-29.
OrbitBeyond was one of nine companies NASA selected for the CLPS program in November 2019.
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines received CLPS task orders alongside OrbitBeyond and were planning lander missions in 2021.
OrbitBeyond informed NASA that internal corporate challenges would prevent it from carrying out the CLPS task order it was awarded on 2020-05-31.
OrbitBeyond received a $97,000,000 CLPS task order for its lunar lander mission, the largest of three task orders NASA awarded in May 2020.
Team Indus is working with OrbitBeyond to provide engineering and services.
OrbitBeyond’s Z-01 lander mission was scheduled by OrbitBeyond to launch in September 2020.
OrbitBeyond, Astrobotic, and Intuitive Machines received NASA contracts on 2019-05-31 to carry experiments and other payloads to the Moon.
OrbitBeyond received $97,000,000 from NASA to fly up to four payloads on a lander scheduled to touch down on Mare Imbrium.