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    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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    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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    (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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    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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  • 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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    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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