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Launch Date
3/31/1966
Launch Site
NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
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Launch Vehicle
Molniya 8K78M (R-7 Family)
LunA-10 aims to identify technologies with potential national security applications, including advanced thermal management technologies for lunar power systems that could also support communications and navigation and be used elsewhere.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
GITAI USA Inc. is selected to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study.
CisLunar Industries will work on the Material Extraction, Treatment, Assembly and Logistics (METAL) framework for lunar resources as part of LunA-10.
Firefly Aerospace will outline an aggregated hub of on-orbit spacecraft that dock together and offer on-demand services based on its Elytra line of spacecraft for LunA-10.
DARPA is soliciting three-page abstracts for LunA-10 that are due 2023-09-06.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched the 10-Year Lunar Architecture project, called LunA-10, on 2023-08-15.
Firefly’s contribution to LunA-10 will include a framework for an aggregated hub of on-orbit spacecraft that dock together and offer on-demand services across cislunar space.
DARPA announced on 2023-12-05 that 14 companies will collaborate over the next seven months on the 10-Year Lunar Architecture, or LunA-10, study.
Redwire Corporation has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research and develop technologies as part of the 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) study.
GITAI’s LunA-10 proposal centers on deploying modular, multi-purpose Inchworm robots with tool-changeable end effectors to perform lunar surface labor.
Redwire’s contribution to the LunA-10 study will focus on providing critical services to lunar assets from cislunar space, including high-speed communications and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT).
On 2023-12-05 Firefly Aerospace was selected to develop an analytical framework for aggregated on-orbit spacecraft hubs in support of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
DARPA’s LunA-10 initiative seeks solutions for shareable, scalable systems that can be commercially available on and around the Moon by 2035.
CisLunar Industries was awarded a DARPA contract for the LunA-10 (The 10-Year Lunar Architecture) capability study.