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Inside the stack · 14
AFRL’s first cislunar mission, Oracle-M, now rides USSF-63 on Falcon Heavy as AFRL readies a $30 million small-business program and the Space Force plans two requests to industry for tracking, communications and navigation around the Moon.
Read the storyInside the stack · 13
Follow FLIP, MAPP and VIPER from their builders to their mission objectives, and see how robotic exploration can prepare the ground for Artemis astronauts.
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NASA's first three Moon Base landings: Moon Base II, Griffin-1, targets late 2026 or January 2027; Moon Base I, Endurance, and Moon Base III, Trinity, target early 2027.
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Inside the stack / 02
Meet six companies on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, see what FLIP is meant to prove at Nobile Crater, near Mons Mouton, and follow the September schedule remarks that keep Griffin-1 on the 2026 board.
Why revisit this flight now? ↓
What the flight carries / Mobility
On September 15, Carlos García-Galán said Griffin carries Astrolab’s robotic FLIP rover to the lunar south pole. FLIP is short for FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform. He described the rover as a way to test hardware for a future crewed rover, show reliable access from that landing site, and gather ground truth data from the lander.
On Moon Imports, FLIP is Venturi Astrolab’s rover on Griffin-1. The planned landing site is Nobile Crater, near Mons Mouton.
Aerospace America: FLIP and ground truth, September 15, 2026 ↗ Astrobotic: Astrolab’s FLIP rover joins Griffin-1 ↗This week / 15 September 2026
At the Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Ohio, García-Galán, NASA’s Moon Base program manager, said Voyager Technologies’ Griffin lander from Astrobotic is on track to launch no earlier than November. He said Blue Origin’s Mark 1 Endurance and Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Trinity are now slated for the first part of 2027, and Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 for later in 2027.
Aerospace America: García-Galán remarks, September 15, 2026 ↗On 14 October, NASA’s Ryan Stephan showed slides listing Griffin-1 no earlier than January 2027. On 27 October, NASA’s Dayna Ise put Griffin-1 this winter, as soon as November.
The Space Review: Stephan slides, October 26, 2026 ↗Spectrum News: Ise remarks, October 27, 2026 ↗Griffin-1 cargo path. Landing at Nobile Crater, near Mons Mouton, with FLIP aboard.
Read the Griffin stack ↓Three other Phase 1 landers now sit in 2027 on the same public remarks.
First part of 2027 for MK1 and Trinity · later 2027 for Blue Ghost M2The companies are familiar, but the calendar has moved. Revisiting Griffin now means reading the stack that targets late 2026 or January 2027, then looking ahead to the flights set for 2027.
To see how the flight comes together, start with Astrobotic’s lander and follow the contributions below.
01 / The lander
Astrobotic builds and operates Griffin, the medium-class lander on the Griffin-1 cargo path. From its Pittsburgh headquarters, the team designs the structure, integrates the payloads, and runs assembly and testing for flight. Astrobotic also builds Griffin’s propulsion tubing, cabling, and harnessing in-house, and flies its own LunaRay system to help the lander navigate and spot hazards near the south pole.
Astrobotic: Griffin-1 lunar delivery manifest ↗ Astrobotic: FLIP joins Griffin-1 ↗On this flight, Griffin carries Astrolab’s FLIP rover and several NASA science payloads, including a dust sensor, a lunar LiDAR, two laser retroreflectors, and METAL helium-3 work with Interlune. NASA reported on August 4, 2026 that Griffin-1 is in JPL’s Environmental Test Lab, with mass-properties testing complete and more launch-to-landing environment tests still ahead, before the lander returns to Pittsburgh for final work and ships to the Cape. The planned landing site is Nobile Crater, near Mons Mouton at the lunar south pole. On the September 15 schedule remarks, Griffin-1 stays on the 2026 board.
02 / The launch
Before any of the work at Nobile Crater can begin, Griffin needs a launch from Earth. On the Moon Imports record, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is the public launch vehicle for Astrobotic Griffin-1. SpaceX’s Florida teams fly Falcon Heavy from the Cape and Kennedy.
Falcon Heavy’s part in this flight is to lift Griffin, FLIP, and the NASA payloads together. SpaceX provides the launch. Astrobotic builds and operates the lander. Seeing both names on one mission becomes more useful when each is connected to the work it actually does.
03 / The engines
Astrobotic selected Frontier Aerospace for Griffin’s main axial engines, an F500E-class thruster line. That selection continues on the Griffin cargo flight that carries FLIP. Frontier is a U.S. propulsion company. Its thrusters also appear on Astrobotic’s Peregrine path, so the team brings earlier lunar-program engine work into Griffin-1.
Astrobotic: lander engines and Griffin selections ↗During descent, those main engines do the heavy braking. Agile Space Industries supplies a separate set of thrusters for pointing and fine control. The two sets of engines handle different stages of the same approach, while Astrobotic keeps the plumbing and integration in Pittsburgh.
04 / Attitude control
In the same announcement, Astrobotic named Agile Space Industries for Griffin’s attitude-control thrusters. Those thrusters help keep the lander pointed and steady. Agile has reported selection, delivery, and hot-fire work on that thruster set, and the role continues on Griffin-1.
Astrobotic: ACS thruster selection with Griffin engines ↗This adds another piece to the descent story: Frontier’s main engines slow the approach, while Agile’s thrusters help Griffin finish the pointing and fine control near the surface. Agile’s source describes the selection and thruster work; later flight results will come after Griffin flies.
05 / The rover
FLIP is Venturi Astrolab’s tech-demo rover on Griffin-1. The Hawthorne team, led by founder Jaret Matthews, built it to try out mobility, power, and avionics that feed later Astrolab rover work, including FLEX paths and CLV 1 for NASA. Astrobotic announced FLIP joining the flight. Astrolab describes the rover as a way to run those hardware trials on the surface.
Astrobotic: FLIP joins Griffin-1 ↗ Astrolab: FLIP rover ↗García-Galán’s September remarks put that rover at the center of why this lander still matters in 2026: test hardware at the south pole, and gather ground truth from the landing. NASA science payloads ride the same lander, so Astrolab’s demo sits beside a wider cargo deck.
06 / Wheels + night power
Venturi Space in Monaco builds the flexible lunar wheels Astrolab uses on FLIP. The wheels are meant to bend over lunar soil and help prove designs for a later crewed rover. The same company builds a battery enclosure meant to help FLIP through the long lunar night on Griffin-1.
Astrolab: FLIP rover hardware path ↗This adds another piece under the same rover García-Galán named with Griffin’s 2026 window. Astrolab owns the vehicle. Venturi Space supplies the wheels and night-power enclosure. On September 9, 2026 in Paris, Venturi Space also showed ALTA LUNA, its own tracked lunar utility rover, so the same company is pushing lunar mobility hardware on more than one path.
Follow the work
Griffin gives us a practical way to explore the companies behind a lunar mission, and to read this week’s schedule news through their work. Start with Astrobotic’s lander, follow a component to its supplier, then look at that company’s other flights and hardware. SpaceX provides the Falcon Heavy launch. Frontier supplies the axial engines. Agile supplies the ACS thrusters. Astrolab flies FLIP. Venturi Space puts wheels and night power under that rover. From there, look ahead to Blue Moon MK1, IM-3 Trinity, and Blue Ghost Mission 2, the flights now set for 2027.
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