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Three lander missions in flight prep under the Moon Base umbrella; awarded $590.4M to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines for four follow-on missions targeting 2028
Astrobotic is now Voyager Lunar Systems, rebranded after Voyager Technologies closed its acquisition on July 13. Griffin-1 is at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where engineers are testing it against vibration, vacuum, and temperature extremes ahead of a November 2026 launch.
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Funding and managing commercial lunar deliveries
The cosmic Dark Ages were a 200-million-year stretch after the Big Bang — just hydrogen gas, no stars. No instrument has ever detected light from this period: Earth's atmosphere blocks the radio frequencies, and human electronics drown out the faint signals.
Updated May 23
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