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The total award value of the firm-fixed-price contract with Blue Origin is $3,400,000,000.
Lockheed Martin is part of the Blue Origin-led National Team that won a NASA contract to develop and demonstrate a human landing system under NASA’s Human Landing System program.
Draper is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Astrobotic is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for recurring astronaut expeditions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway in lunar orbit.
Boeing is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Zero-boiloff cryogenic propellant technology is a key enabling technology for Blue Moon, and Blue Origin has been funding zero-boiloff technology such as a cryocooler that operates at 20 kelvins.
Both Blue Origin and Dynetics received funding from NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) Appendix N effort in September 2021 to mature technologies such as engines for their landers.
Under the SLD contract, Blue Origin will develop solar-powered 20-kelvin cryocoolers and other technologies to prevent LOX-LH2 boil-off.
Under the SLD contract, Blue Origin and its National Team partners will develop and fly a cislunar transporter.
Blue Origin’s Uncrewed Flight Test (UFT) proposal uses a fully matured crewed lander configuration that includes life support systems and the ability to launch back to near-rectilinear halo orbit.
Blue Origin proposed a series of pathfinder lander missions in 2024 and 2025 to mature key low-TRL technologies before the required uncrewed test flight.
Blue Origin is funding the 2024 and 2025 pathfinder lander missions with no financial impact to NASA.
Blue Origin plans to invest well north of $3,400,000,000 to develop the Blue Moon lander.
NASA selected Blue Origin to develop a second Artemis lunar lander for the Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) award on 2023-05-19.
The fixed-price award to Blue Origin to develop the Blue Moon lander is $3,400,000,000.
Blue Origin plans a 2023-03-01 version of the Blue Moon lander for test launches and landings to prove technologies before crewed use.
Blue Origin manufactures the BE-4 engines and has test stands where the BE-4 engines have been fired many times.
Telesat previously planned to use rockets still under development by Blue Origin and Relativity Space to deploy the Lightspeed constellation.
Blue Origin in Kent, Washington received two 2022 ACO selections involving NASA Langley, NASA Marshall, and NASA Ames.