Masten Space Systems (now Astrobotic's Propulsion and Test Department) was an aerospace manufacturer startup specializing in vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets for uncrewed sub-orbital and intended orbital spaceflights. They developed reusable launch vehicles, rocket propulsion hardware, and provided services like rocket propulsion design and space hardware testing. Masten was known for its work with NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program and aimed to enable sustainable access to the Moon, with key technologies including lunar landers (like the XL-1), lunar night survival tech, and lunar water mining tech.
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NASA awarded Masten Space Systems a $75,900,000 contract in April 2020 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to transport scientific research payloads to the lunar South Pole.
Masten Space Systems is one of four companies that have received a total of six NASA CLPS task orders awarded to date.
Masten Space Systems won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order for Masten Mission 1 in April 2020 valued at $75,900,000.
Masten Space Systems selected SpaceX to launch its Masten Mission One lander, which is scheduled for late 2022.
Frontier Aerospace won contracts to provide propulsion systems for lunar landers being built by Astrobotic and by Masten Space Systems.
Masten Space Systems selected SpaceX to provide launch services for its XL-1 lander mission, which won a CLPS award for a late-2022 mission.
Masten Space Systems selected Frontier Aerospace to produce thrusters for the XL-1 lunar lander.
Masten Space Systems won a CLPS award in 2020 for a lander mission to the lunar south pole in 2022.
Masten Space Systems won a CLPS lander mission to the south polar region of the moon in April 2020 and selected SpaceX in August to launch its XL-1 lander.
Masten Space Systems received a $15,000 award for a mission to the lunar south pole in 2023.
Masten Space Systems won two Tipping Point contracts totaling $12,800,000 to demonstrate precision landing technologies with its Xogdor vehicle and a system to provide heat and power for payloads to survive the lunar night.
Masten Space Systems has started to purchase long-lead items needed to build the XL-1 spacecraft.
Masten Space Systems joins a growing list of companies and organizations using SpaceX to launch lunar lander missions.
Masten Space Systems signed a contract with SpaceX on 2020-08-26 to launch its first lunar lander mission carrying a suite of payloads for NASA.
NASA awarded a CLPS task order to Masten Space Systems on 2020-04-08 for a mission to the lunar south pole with a launch scheduled for late 2022.
NASA awarded a CLPS task order on 2020-04-08 to Masten Space Systems.
NASA selected Masten Space Systems on 2020-04-08 to fly a suite of payloads to the lunar south pole in late 2022 on its XL-1 lander.
Firefly was one of an estimated eight to ten bidders for the CLPS task order that NASA awarded to Masten Space Systems on 2020-04-08.
NASA awarded a CLPS task order on 2020-04-08 to Masten Space Systems to carry payloads to the Moon’s south polar region in 2022.
Masten Space Systems won a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order valued at $75,900,000.