The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) was a competition funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program. The competition offered a series...
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lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander...
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Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. On September 12, 2009, Armadillo won $500,000 by succeeding in Level 2 of the same challenge. In 2010, they signed...
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A lunar lander is a space vehicle designed to land on the Moon. Lunar Lander may also refer to: Apollo Lunar Module (LM or LEM), the lander used in the...
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energies that are equivalent to what would be needed for a lunar lander. The Vertical Lander Challenge requires 50 meter minimum altitude, horizontal distance...
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Masten Space Systems (category Commercial Lunar Payload Services)
Masten a contract for a lunar lander mission; NASA was to pay Masten US$75.9 million for Masten to build and launch a lander called XL-1 to take NASA...
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crewed lunar lander, and have hinted at seeking a crewed lander no heavier than 6 t (13,000 lb). The reusable lander would enable sustainable lunar surface...
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Vanna Bonta (section Lunar Lander Challenge)
Space, aired in 2009. From 2007-09, she participated in the annual Lunar Lander Challenge, a competition sponsored by NASA and Northrop Grumman to commercially...
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Starship HLS (redirect from SpaceX Lunar Starship)
(Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the...
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after 2000, in part due to incentive prize competitions like the Lunar Lander Challenge. Starting in the mid-2000s, VTVL was under intense development as...
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Lunar X Prize (GLXP) was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge called...
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the US to China and build a crewed lunar lander. Chang'e 4 lander on the Moon Yutu-2 rover on lunar surface Lunar soil sample collected by China's Chang'e...
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X Prize Cup (category Challenge awards)
rocket-powered bicycles, rocket jet packs; but particularly notable are the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Space Elevator Games. 85,000 visitors attended the 2007...
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IM-1 (redirect from Odysseus lunar lander)
(IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned 30 degree angle...
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2008, Armadillo Aerospace competed in a NASA contest known as the Lunar Lander Challenge, winning first place in the Level 1 competition along with $350...
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its Vikram lander after it crashed into the moon's surface". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 22 August 2023. "Vikram lander located on lunar surface, wasn't...
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Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mission would send an uncrewed lunar lander and rover to explore the south pole region of the Moon no earlier than...
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transport, and operate NASA payloads, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface systems, Earth re-entry vehicles and associated resources...
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Apollo Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit...
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computer-controlled VTVL rocket that was used in 2006 to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge. The quad vehicle design is a pressure fed in blow-down[clarification...
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Shock diamonds beneath Masten Space Systems Xoie rocket during the Lunar Lander Challenge competition-winning landing....
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Chandrayaan programme (redirect from Indian Lunar Exploration Program)
incorporates a lunar orbiter, an impactor, a soft lander and a rover spacecraft. There have been three missions so far with a total of two orbiters, landers and...
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Human Landing System (redirect from Artemis lunar lander)
the second provider for lunar lander services. The Advanced Exploration Lander was a 2018 NASA concept for a three-stage lander, intended to serve as a...
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Moon landing (redirect from Lunar landing)
Indigenous Lander Module (LM), Propulsion module (PM) and the Pragyan rover. The lander with the rover successfully landed near the lunar south pole at...
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proposed lunar lander designs. The Boeing lander consists of a descent and ascent stage with the descent stage being able to deorbit the lander, which eliminates...
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A lunar module is a lunar lander designed to allow astronauts to travel between a spacecraft in lunar orbit and the lunar surface. As of 2021, the Apollo...
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Artemis V (category Lunar Gateway)
Moon lander. The mission will launch four astronauts on a Space Launch System rocket and an Orion to the Lunar Gateway and will be the third lunar landing...
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Lunar Lander Challenge flight by Masten Space Systems wins second place for Level 1 of the NASA competition October 30, 2009 — Lunar Lander Challenge...
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carrying Nasa moon lander lifts off in Florida – live updates". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-08. "Peregrine Lander | Astrobotic". www...
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List of missions to the Moon (redirect from Future lunar missions)
events" led to crash of lunar lander". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019. "Lander Vikram located: K Sivan"...
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