Lunar Outpost's Lunar Dawn rover had a higher mission suitability score of 863 but a higher price at nearly $1.73 billion.
Lunar Outpost's Lunar Dawn rover integrates General Motors' electric-vehicle battery technology.
The Lunar Dawn vehicle is designed to survive and operate during the two-week-long lunar nights with temperatures down to -280 degrees Fahrenheit, extending mission life from days to many years.
NASA awarded the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) contract to the Lunar Dawn team led by Lunar Outpost with principal partner Lockheed Martin and teammates General Motors, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and MDA Space.
When not in use by NASA, the Lunar Dawn LTV will provide commercial services to contribute to a more accessible and sustainable cislunar economy.
When not used by NASA, the Lunar Dawn LTV will provide commercial services to support a more accessible and sustainable cislunar economy.
General Motors on the Lunar Dawn team will provide battery and related automotive technologies and Goodyear will provide tires.
The Lunar Dawn vehicle is designed to operate during the two-week-long lunar nights at temperatures down to -280 degrees Fahrenheit, extending mission life from days to many years.
Dawn launched in 2007 orbited 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres to map surfaces and study composition and internal structure.
NASA's history of the Discovery program illustrates its evolution through missions such as NEAR, Mars Pathfinder, Dawn, and Kepler.
Haiyang-3 (01) will operate in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit.
BlackSky’s commercial constellation provides dynamic hourly monitoring of locations up to 15 times a day from dawn until dusk.
The National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA) of the DPRK conducted the second launch of reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1 aboard the new-type carrier rocket Chollima-1 at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in Cholsan County, North Phyongan Province at dawn of 2023-08-24, Juche 112 (2023).
The Dawn Mk-II Aurora is a rocket-powered spaceplane demonstrator developed by Dawn Aerospace.
The Dawn Mk-II Aurora has operated using jet engines to date and rocket-powered flight was expected to commence in the first quarter of 2023.
BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform provides multi-source analytics and satellite imagery collection that offer high-revisit, dawn-to-dusk imaging and analytics integrated into GEOINT workflows.
The MATS spacecraft was designed to operate in a 585-kilometer dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, a regime with limited rideshare opportunities that drove the need for a dedicated launch.
MATS will operate in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 585 km.
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIDU) signed an agreement with Dawn Aerospace to implement Dawn’s green chemical propulsion technology into Sidus Space’s LizzieSat™ smallsat.
Crew-4 began with a Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center in the pre-dawn hours of 2022-04-27 and docked with the station less than 16 hours later.