Company

Honeybee Robotics

USA · named on public Moon flights

Honeybee Robotics (a Blue Origin company) builds planetary sampling and drilling systems that ride commercial landers. Public NASA and company pages document roles.

Hardware

TRIDENT rotary-percussive drill string

Hardware · TRIDENT is Honeybee Robotics' meter-class drill on PRIME-1. · IM-2 Athena

Lunar PlanetVac pneumatic sampler

Hardware · Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Blue Ghost Mission 1

LISTER heat-flow probe (Texas Tech PI / Honeybee mechanism)

Hardware · Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1

PRIME-1 drill+MSolo science package (IM-2)

Part · NASA PRIME-1 polar ice mining package combining Honeybee TRIDENT drill + KSC/INFICON MSolo on IM-2. · IM-2 Athena

Honeybee Robotics technology payloads (IM-5)

Hardware · Blue Origin Honeybee Robotics advanced technology contributions on IM-5 Nova-D CLPS suite. · IM-5 Nova-D

VIPER TRIDENT drill (Honeybee Robotics)

Hardware · Honeybee Robotics TRIDENT 1-m rotary-percussive drill integrated on VIPER for polar volatiles sampling. · VIPER on Blue Moon (CS-7)

Honeybee Robotics lunar rover (IM-5 suite)

Rover · Honeybee Robotics (Blue Origin) lunar rover pictured/described with Nova-D IM-5 award materials alongside ASA Roo-ver. · IM-5 Nova-D

LPV

Hardware · Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Blue Ghost Mission 1

Honeybee lunar rover

Rover · Honeybee Robotics lunar rover on IM-5 Nova-D CT-4 suite (public suite imagery/description). · IM-5 Nova-D

Honeybee rover (Gruithuisen Domes / BG-M3 path)

Rover · Firefly contracted Honeybee Robotics (Blue Origin) for a lunar rover on Blue Ghost Mission 3 Gruithuisen Domes path (public 2025 announcement). · Blue Ghost Mission 3

Jobs

TRIDENT rotary-percussive drill string

TRIDENT is Honeybee Robotics' meter-class drill on PRIME-1. · IM-2 Athena · science.nasa.gov

Lunar PlanetVac (Blue Ghost M1)

Pneumatic regolith sampler on Firefly Blue Ghost M1. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

LISTER hardware (Blue Ghost M1)

Heat-flow probe hardware co-developed with Texas Tech science lead. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

Blue Moon MK2 cargo offloading (Honeybee Robotics)

NASA has two HLS providers in build. · Artemis V · spacenews.com

Honeybee GIMLI instruments

Honeybee Robotics (a Blue Origin company) is the named commercial partner on PSI-led GIMLI under NASA PRISM. · psi.edu

Lunar PlanetVac pneumatic sampler

Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

LISTER heat-flow probe (Texas Tech PI / Honeybee mechanism)

Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

Honeybee rover (Gruithuisen Domes / BG-M3 path)

Firefly contracted Honeybee Robotics (Blue Origin) for a lunar rover on Blue Ghost Mission 3 Gruithuisen Domes path (public 2025 announcement). · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · blueorigin.com

LPV, Lunar PlanetVac (Honeybee)

Honeybee Robotics Lunar PlanetVac pneumatic sample acquisition system on Blue Ghost M1 (PlanetVac product line class). · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · science.nasa.gov

PRIME-1 drill+MSolo science package (IM-2)

NASA PRIME-1 polar ice mining package combining Honeybee TRIDENT drill + KSC/INFICON MSolo on IM-2. · IM-2 Athena · nasa.gov

Honeybee Robotics technology payloads (IM-5)

Blue Origin Honeybee Robotics advanced technology contributions on IM-5 Nova-D CLPS suite. · IM-5 Nova-D · investors.intuitivemachines.com

VIPER TRIDENT drill (Honeybee Robotics)

Honeybee Robotics TRIDENT 1-m rotary-percussive drill integrated on VIPER for polar volatiles sampling. · VIPER on Blue Moon (CS-7) · science.nasa.gov

Cargo

Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity

Honeybee mechanism path for LISTER heat-flow probe. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · 2025-01-15

Lunar PlanetVac

Honeybee pneumatic regolith collector on Blue Ghost M1. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · 2025-01-15

The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain

Honeybee-built drill for PRIME-1. · IM-2 Athena · 2025-02-27

The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain

1 m-class rotary-percussive drill for polar regolith/ice sampling on VIPER. · VIPER on Blue Moon (CS-7) · NET late 2027 (contingent)

Honeybee rover (Gruithuisen Domes / BG-M3 path)

Firefly contracted Honeybee Robotics (Blue Origin) for a lunar rover on Blue Ghost Mission 3 Gruithuisen Domes path (public 2025 announcement). · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028

Honeybee Robotics lunar rover (Blue Origin)

Honeybee Robotics lunar rover on IM-5 Nova-D CT-4 suite (public suite imagery/description). · IM-5 Nova-D · NET ~2030 class

Honeybee Robotics technology payloads (IM-5)

Blue Origin Honeybee Robotics advanced technology contributions on IM-5 Nova-D CLPS suite (company award messaging. · IM-5 Nova-D · NET ~2030 class

Flights

Blue Ghost Mission 12025-01-15 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO19D ~$93.3M): Falcon 9 launch 2025-01-15 · soft landing (upright) Mare Crisium 2025-03-02 · all 10 NASA science/tech payloads operated through a full lunar day (+ hours into night).

IM-2 Athena2025-02-27 · IM-2 Athena (PRIME-1 path): south polar attempt (Mar 2025).

Artemis IIINET late 2027 · NASA: Artemis III is a 2027 crewed demonstration in low Earth orbit.

VIPER on Blue Moon (CS-7)NET late 2027 (contingent) · VIPER polar rover on second Blue Moon MK1 (CS-7).

Blue Ghost Mission 3NET ~2028 · Six NASA science payloads to Gruithuisen Domes.

Artemis IVNET early 2028 · NASA: Artemis IV is the first planned crewed south-polar landing, early 2028.

Artemis VNET late 2028 · NASA: Artemis V is the second planned crewed south-polar landing, late 2028, when lunar-base surface work begins.

IM-5 Nova-DNET ~2030 class · First cargo-class Nova-D CLPS.

Sources

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