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Draper Associates

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commercialFounded 1985
United States
www.draper.vc
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The Draper-led team won a $73,000,000 NASA CLPS award formally designated CP-12 in July 2022 to land in Schrödinger Basin near the lunar south pole.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipApr 13, 2023Draper completes initial milestones for NASA CLPS mission

Draper completed a mission architecture and requirements review and a payload interface preliminary design review for its CLPS mission on 2023-04-13.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative GeneralApr 13, 2023Draper completes initial milestones for NASA CLPS mission

There is strong demand for small satellite buses of the size Draper requires from the U.S. Space Force and other military programs.

Mentioned as: DraperOrg RelationshipApr 13, 2023Draper completes initial milestones for NASA CLPS mission

Draper completed the first milestones of a NASA award to perform the first commercial landing on the far side of the Moon in 2025.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative GeneralApr 13, 2023Draper completes initial milestones for NASA CLPS mission

Mission 3 will use a larger lander developed by ispace’s U.S. subsidiary in partnership with Draper.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative PlanMar 21, 2023Japanese lander enters lunar orbit

Draper won a CLPS task order for the first farside CLPS mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2025.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative GeneralMar 15, 2023Firefly wins second NASA CLPS mission

The Draper CLPS mission will use a lander developed by ispace’s U.S. office that is significantly larger than the HAKUTO-R landers.

Mentioned as: draperTechnical ProductDec 11, 2022Falcon 9 launches ispace lander and NASA cubesat to the moon

The Farside Seismic Suite will fly on a Draper-awarded mission that will land on the moon's Schrödinger Basin in 2025.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative PlanNov 30, 2022France joins ASAT testing moratorium

In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2022ispace HAKUTO-R Lunar Lander Arrives in Cape Canaveral, Florida

ispace’s U.S. office is part of a Draper-led team that won a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in July for a lander mission to the far side of the moon scheduled for launch in 2025.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipOct 13, 2022Artemis 1, ispace lander set November launch dates

In July 2022, NASA awarded Team Draper, which includes ispace subsidiary ispace technologies U.S., inc., $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipOct 12, 2022ispace Announces HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Launch Window for November 9 – 15, 2022

Draper received a $73,000,000 CLPS task order to provide the SERIES-2 lander for a mission to the lunar farside.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipSep 21, 2022Lander companies prepare to shoot for the moon

Draper won a CLPS award for a lunar farside landing mission on 2025-07-21.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative GeneralAug 16, 2022Astrobotic bids for Masten Space Systems assets

Team Draper was awarded $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface under NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order CP-12.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipJul 25, 2022ispace Lunar Lander Selected to Deliver NASA CLPS Payloads to the Far Side of the Moon

Team Draper expects to launch and begin operations on the lunar surface in 2025 in fulfillment of NASA CLPS task order CP-12.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative PlanJul 25, 2022ispace Lunar Lander Selected to Deliver NASA CLPS Payloads to the Far Side of the Moon

Draper calls the lander SERIES-2 and will deliver three experiments to Schrödinger Basin to collect seismic data, measure heat flow and electrical conductivity of the lunar subsurface, and measure electromagnetic phenomena created by solar wind and plasma interactions with the lunar surface.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative GeneralJul 21, 2022Draper wins NASA contract for farside lunar lander mission

The CLPS task order awarded to Draper for the Schrödinger Basin mission is worth $73,000,000.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesTechnical ProductJul 21, 2022Draper wins NASA contract for farside lunar lander mission

Draper will deliver three investigations on SERIES-2 that will collectively weigh about 94.8 kg (95 kg).

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesNarrative PlanJul 21, 2022NASA selects Draper to fly research to the far side of the Moon

NASA selected a team led by Draper on 2022-07-21 for a 2025 mission to land in Schrödinger Basin on the lunar farside near the south pole.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipJul 21, 2022Draper wins NASA contract for farside lunar lander mission

Draper received a $73,000,000 contract from NASA to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

Mentioned as: Draper AssociatesOrg RelationshipJul 21, 2022NASA selects Draper to fly research to the far side of the Moon
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