Orbit Beyond is a lunar transportation, infrastructure, and exploration services company. As one of the NASA-approved Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contractors, it focuses on providing reliable and cost-effective lunar payload delivery services to both public space agencies and private sector companies. Their products include configurable lunar landers and rovers, with a recent lander design in 2022 boasting a 300kg+ payload capacity, with the aim of enabling commercial and scientific activities on the Moon. Orbit Beyond has worked with partners like TeamIndus, Honeybee Robotics, and Advanced Space, and is positioning itself to be a leading player in the commercial cislunar market.
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The 13 CLPS contractors are Astrobotic Technology, Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, Lockheed Martin Space, Moon Express, Orbit Beyond, Redwire Space Sensors, Sierra Space, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
Tec-Masters and Orbit Beyond announced a partnership for a lunar landing mission.
Tec-Masters, Orbit Beyond, and Canadensys Aerospace have formed a strategic partnership to deliver Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) for upcoming lunar surface missions.
NOAA will consider how best to maintain its ability to gather space weather data in geostationary orbit beyond Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U, a mission scheduled to launch in 2024.
Orbit Beyond was one of nine companies selected for the CLPS program in November 2018 and received a task order in May 2019 before withdrawing two months later.
Axiom Research Labs sought a corporate restructuring that would give it majority control over Orbit Beyond, which would violate NASA's requirements for domestic ownership.
NASA selected Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond for initial CLPS awards in May 2019.
The Queqiao relay satellite, equipped with a 4.2-meter parabolic antenna, was launched from Xichang on 2018-05-20 and entered a Lissajous orbit beyond the moon around the Earth–moon Lagrange point 2 on 2018-06-14.