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Astrobotic and Draper did not attempt a lunar landing in 2025.
Ispace, teamed with Draper, attempted a non-CLPS lunar landing in 2025.
ispace's Mission 3 may also be referred to as Draper Mission 1, with a planned launch after 2027.
NASA refers to Team Draper's lunar landing mission as 'Draper Mission 1'.
Draper has a contract with NASA to provide commercial lunar payload services (CLPS) for transporting payloads to the moon.
Team Draper will be responsible for lander design, manufacturing, and operational management of Mission 3.
Mission 3 is in the early commercialization phase and involves ispace technologies U.S. participating in a group led by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
Team Draper is assigned to the CLPS task order 'CP-12', which involves a predetermined payload.
Mission 3, formally named 'Team Draper Commercial Mission 1', is scheduled for launch in 2017.
The contract effort will accelerate the development, production, and deployment of Draper engines for critical national security applications in space.
The contract will ultimately validate the performance and flexibility of Draper engines.
Ursa Major will deliver Draper engines and associated services under the contract.
Draper plans to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s farside in 2026, carrying 95 kilograms of NASA scientific instruments.
ispace raised $53.5 million through a stock sale in March 2024, with $47 million of that intended for the Draper-led CLPS mission.
Mehak Sarang is Director of Industry Integration at the Open Lunar Foundation and previously worked at ispace-US, a subsidiary of ispace Japan building a lunar lander with Draper for NASA’s CLPS program.
ispace cannot directly bid on NASA payloads but has a partnership with Draper for one CLPS mission.
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.
Ursa Major built a Draper-specific test stand with funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract awarded last year.
ispace U.S. is developing the APEX 1.0 lander under a contract with Draper for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission in 2026 designated M3 by ispace.
The APEX 1.0 lunar lander is designed to support the Draper-led Commercial Lunar Payload Services Task Order CP-12 by delivering NASA payloads to the lunar surface for scientific investigations.