LunIR

Terran Orbital Corporation delivered the LunIR spacecraft to Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Terran Orbital designed and built the LunIR spacecraft and is responsible for spacecraft integration and mission assurance.

Lockheed Martin developed LunIR’s infrared sensor and cryocooler to operate in both lunar day and night and to map the lunar surface, detect materials, and collect thermal signatures.

Terran Orbital expects to deliver the LunIR satellite for NASA in 2022 to support surface characterization, remote sensing, and site selection observations of the Moon and to launch on the Artemis I mission.

Kongsberg Satellite Services will provide communications for the Lunar InfraRed Imaging (LunIR) mission using ground stations in Punta Arenas, Chile; Svalbard, Norway; and Troll Station, Antarctica.

KSAT will provide ground network support to the LunIR mission in collaboration with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terran Orbital Corporation.

LunIR hosts a first-of-a-kind infrared sensor and a novel cryocooler developed by Lockheed Martin.

LunIR will be deployed from the SLS rocket’s Orion stage adapter and perform a flyby of the Moon.

Tyvak will manage LunIR’s mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.

LunIR hosts a payload developed by Lockheed Martin.

The LunIR spacecraft hosts a novel cryocooler developed by Lockheed Martin.

Tyvak will manage LunIR’s spacecraft mission operations using ground station communication services provided by KSAT.

Lockheed Martin developed LunIR’s infrared sensor and cryocooler to operate day and night for mapping the lunar surface.

The LunIR spacecraft hosts an infrared sensor developed by Lockheed Martin that can map the Moon both day and night.