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Mission 3, which will debut the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace-U.S. and is expected to launch in 2026.
Mission 3, debuting the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace-U.S. and is expected to launch in 2026.
Mission 3 will debut the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace-U.S., and is expected to launch in 2026.
Each of the two selected APEX proposals received $5,000,000 for one-year studies to refine their designs.
NASA selected two proposals for further study for its Astrophysics Probe Explorer (APEX) program on 2024-10-03.
NASA set a $1,000,000,000 cost cap for the first APEX competition, excluding launch and any international contributions.
NASA plans to pick one of the two APEX proposals in 2026 as the first probe-class mission for launch in 2032.
The 19 HALO pool members are Airbus U.S. Space & Defense (Arlington, Virginia); Apex Technology, Inc. (Culver City, California); AST Space Mobile USA LLC (Midland, Texas); Astro Digital, U.S. Inc. (San Jose, California); Capella Space Corp. (San Francisco); CesiumAstro Inc. (Austin, Texas); Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas); Geneva Technologies Inc. (Monument, Colorado); Impulse Space, Inc. (Redondo Beach, California); Kepler Communications U.S. Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware); Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC (Arlington, Virginia); LeoStella LLC (Tukwila, Washington); Momentus Space (San Jose, California); Muon Space, Inc. (Mountain View, California); NovaWurks Inc. (Los Alamitos, California); Space Exploration Technologies Corps. (SpaceX) (Hawthorne, California); Turion Space Corp. (Irvine, California); Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. (Irvine, California); and York Space Systems LLC (Denver).
ispace-U.S. and Astroport signed a memorandum of understanding that serves as an initial framework for negotiations on missions to deliver and deploy Astroport’s scientific instruments to the lunar surface by the APEX 1.0 lander.
Mission 3, which debuts the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace-U.S. and is expected to launch in 2026.
ispace Mission 3 is led by ispace-U.S. and will debut the APEX 1.0 lunar lander.
The APEX 1.0 surface mission is designed to fulfill the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services Task Order CP-12 by delivering NASA payloads to the lunar surface for scientific investigations.
Mission 3, debuting the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace U.S. and is expected to launch in 2026.
Mission 3 will debut the APEX 1.0 lunar lander, is led by ispace U.S., and is expected to launch in 2026.
APEX 1.0 is the lunar lander that ispace-U.S. will use for Mission 3.
ispace technologies U.S., Inc. (ispace-U.S.) and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC Space US) have signed a collaboration agreement for ispace-U.S.’s upcoming Mission 3 with the APEX 1.0 lunar lander.
Apex raised $95,000,000 in a Series B funding round to ramp up production of productized satellite buses.
Apex announced its Series B funding round on 2024-06-12.
Apex will use the Series B funding to accelerate production of its Aries satellite bus and to develop larger models called Nova and Comet.
Apex plans to start producing Nova buses in 2025 with two Nova buses expected to be completed and launched that year.