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Commercial robotic lunar lander

Commercial robotic lunar is explored here through 2 archived missions, from IM-1 Odysseus through Blue Ghost Mission 1, with the program’s spacecraft, people, milestones, and source-backed history connected along the way.

Missions: 2
People: 0
Vehicles: 2

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Commercial robotic lunar lander science and payloads

The instruments, experiments, destinations, and scientific purpose connected to each robotic mission.

Robotic missionIM-1 OdysseusMalapert A region near the lunar south pole

Lander: Odysseus Nova-C lunar lander
Launch vehicle: Falcon 9 Block 5
NASA and commercial payloads: Six NASA payloads including Navigation Doppler Lidar, Lunar Node-1 navigation beacon, radio-frequency fuel gauge, plume-surface cameras, photoelectron radio experiment, and Laser Retroreflector Array

Open science record →Robotic missionBlue Ghost Mission 1Mons Latreille region within Mare Crisium

Lander: Blue Ghost lunar lander
Launch vehicle: Falcon 9 Block 5
NASA and commercial payloads: Ten NASA science and technology payloads for regolith sampling and drilling, dust mitigation, radiation-tolerant computing, lunar GNSS, X-ray imaging, plume studies, heat flow, and surface environment measurements

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