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Astrobotic's operations at the Mojave Air and Space Port offer flight opportunities for NASA, universities, and commercial developers seeking to mature technologies.
Astrobotic has conducted over 625 reusable rocket flights across five vehicles, demonstrating a significant reusable rocket test record.
The three contracts will accelerate the development of Astrobotic's Xodiac and Xogdor platforms, which include three distinct vehicles.
Astrobotic aims to make spaceflight sustainable and repeatable through its reusable rocket technology.
Astrobotic was selected by the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award worth approximately $1.9 million to design and build Xodiac-B.
Astrobotic's upgraded Xogdor, funded by a $14 million NASA SBIR Phase III contract, will advance to the Block 1B suborbital variant.
Astrobotic has received three contracts totaling $17.5 million to advance the development of next-generation reusable rocket systems.
Astrobotic's first lunar mission was scheduled for 2025, but supply chain issues moved it to the second half of 2026.
Astrobotic and Draper did not attempt a lunar landing in 2025.
Astrobotic has five years of development in space domain awareness and orbital debris detection technologies.
Astrobotic received a NASA award that builds on more than a decade of work on autonomous optical navigation sensors and lunar mission hardware.
NASA has granted a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award to Astrobotic for the development of Clavius-S.
Astrobotic is preparing an orbital variant, Clavius, to support civil, defense, and commercial customers that need monitoring across the broader cislunar volume.
Astrobotic's SSA sensors use current-generation high-performance space computers and advanced algorithms to detect very faint objects and spacecraft in cislunar space and Earth orbit.
Astrobotic plans to offer space domain awareness as a service for government and commercial users with multiple Clavius-S units distributed across the lunar surface.
Astrobotic ultimately aims to field a scalable family of sensors operating from the Moon's surface, throughout cislunar space, in Earth orbit, and from other vantage points.
Astrobotic's SSA sensors employ custom high-throughput optics tailored for space surveillance and highly sensitive imaging detectors.
Clavius-S sensors will be deployed on U.S. lunar landers and Astrobotic's planned LunaGrid power nodes.
The sensor uses Astrobotic's onboard compute element with hardware-accelerated computer vision to detect objects moving at orbital speeds in real time.
Astrobotic's validation efforts support the readiness of the Griffin-1 mission as the team approaches launch.