Building and qualifying the stack on Earth: assembly, integration, test, and payload hang before launch.
Astrobotic assembly in Pittsburgh covers Peregrine and Griffin-1. Firefly assembly in Cedar Park covers Blue Ghost. Blue Origin assembly covers Blue Moon MK1 and MK2. SpaceX assembly at Starbase covers the Starship factory and the pads. The Blue Ghost Mission 2 vibration test is at NASA JPL.
Mission brief
The JPL vibration test is booked to Blue Ghost Mission 2. Cargo integration jobs pack customer payload onto the lander. The cargo card on this shelf is NavCube3-mini, booked to Altus-1.
Schematic
Job categories are assembly and test, environmental test, and cargo integration. Environmental test includes the JPL vibration run. Cargo integration includes the Celestis memorial.
Metalex Manufacturing (Cincinnati) provides precision machining, fabrication, and assembly for SLS, including a large titanium 4-port manifold (NASA OSBP SLS small-business profile).
Astrobotic designed and built the Peregrine lander in Pittsburgh, including structure, avionics integration, and assembly for Mission One and later vehicles.
Lerch Bates states it is providing enclosure, building logistics, facade access, and vertical transportation consulting for SpaceX Gigabays at Starbase, TX and Cape Canaveral, FL.
Thompson Construction Group was awarded foundations for SpaceX Gigabay at Starbase, Brownsville, Texas: about 161,000 square feet of shallow foundations plus site work, grading, earthwork, pile installation and chipping, baseplate grouting, cast-in-place anchors, finished floor slab, and base/fill.
NASA delivered NavCube3-mini to Intuitive Machines on 13 Jul 2026 for integration into Altus-1, IM's first lunar relay satellite under Near Space Network Services.
Japan Manned Space Systems (JAMSS) is on contracted work and joint research with Toyota for the JAXA/Toyota pressurized rover (Lunar Cruiser): conceptual design of the crew system and crew accommodations, plus personnel seconded to Toyota.
RAL Space leads joint assembly and testing of the MAGPIE Volatile Analyzer with support from The Open University, which provides the Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer.
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is Lunar Descent Element prime contractor and end-to-end system integrator, including assembly, integration, and testing (ESA consortium briefing 20 Nov 2025).
Thales Alenia Space in the UK develops the Lunar Descent Element propulsion subsystem and procures main components, in particular propellant tanks and thrusters (ESA consortium briefing).
Starpath, of Hawthorne, California, placed second overall in NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge finale in June 2024, and NASA says the Phase 2 prizes across three levels totaled $838,461.
Vast Lunar Programs proposes a communications and positioning constellation for continuous lunar south pole coverage and improved space situational awareness for surface and orbital operations.
Vast Satellite is a high-power satellite bus line announced 19 May 2026, built on Haven-1 subsystems and Haven Demo flight heritage.
Flights
Beresheet2019-02-22 · SpaceIL / IAI Beresheet, private/national hybrid soft-landing attempt.Artemis I2022-11-16 · First integrated Artemis flight test: uncrewed SLS Block 1 + Orion.Hakuto-R Mission 12022-12-11 · Private Japanese lander.Peregrine Mission One2024-01-08 · First CLPS launch: propellant leak after leaving Earth.IM-1 Odysseus2024-02-15 · IM-1 Odysseus (TO2-IM): first commercial soft landing (Feb 2024).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).Hakuto-R Mission 2 Resilience2025-01-15 · Commercial payloads ~$16M.IM-2 Athena2025-02-27 · IM-2 Athena (PRIME-1 path): south polar attempt (Mar 2025).Artemis II2026-04-01 · First crewed Artemis flight: SLS + Orion lunar flyby.Griffin-1 (Moon Base II)NET late 2026 · Astrobotic / Voyager Lunar Systems Griffin Mission One, NASA Moon Base II.IM-3 TrinityNET Q1 2027 · Intuitive Machines IM-3 (CLPS CP-11): Nova-C Trinity, NASA Moon Base III.Blue Ghost Mission 2NET 2027 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 (CS-3 ~$112M, charter-bg2): planned far-side dual-stack (Blue Ghost stacked on Elytra Dark + ESA Lunar Pathfinder).Blue Moon MK1 Endurance (Moon Base I)NET Q1 2027 · Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance.CAPSTONE 02NET 2027 · NASA hired Advanced Space on 24 July 2026 to fly two identical 400 kg (882 lb) spacecraft to lunar orbit in 2027.IM-4NET ~2027 · Six NASA science payloads to Mons Mouton / south polar highlands.Artemis IIINET late 2027 · NASA: Artemis III is a 2027 crewed demonstration in low Earth orbit.Altus-1 (IM lunar data relay)NET ~2027 · Intuitive Machines Altus-1 is the company's first lunar data relay satellite under NASA Near Space Network Services (NSN).VIPER on Blue Moon (CS-7)NET late 2027 (contingent) · VIPER polar rover on second Blue Moon MK1 (CS-7).IM-6 (Moon Base CS-8)NET ~2028 (CS-8 Moon Base) · 2028 Moon Base batch.Peregrine Mission 3 (Moon Base CS-8)NET ~2028-2029 (CS-8 Moon Base) · Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 3 under NASA Moon Base / CS-8 batch.Starship Lunar Cargo (HLS path)NET late 2020s-2030s (HLS path) · SpaceX Starship lunar architecture: NASA HLS crew lander path plus heavy cargo configurations.Peregrine Mission 2 (Moon Base CS-8)NET ~2028 (CS-8 Moon Base) · Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 2 under NASA Moon Base / CS-8 batch (public award packaging).Blue Ghost Mission 3NET ~2028 · Six NASA science payloads to Gruithuisen Domes.Blue Ghost Mission 5 (Moon Base CS-8)NET ~2028 (CS-8 Moon Base) · 2028 Moon Base CS-8 Firefly delivery: Blue Ghost to the near side (site TBA) with NASA SCALPSS, LRA, and LETS.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.Blue Ghost Mission 4NET ~2029 · South-pole CLPS with multiple rovers (MoonRanger, CSA path) and instruments.ispace Mission 4 polar landerNET 2029 · ispace Japan polar landing, currently scheduled 2029, on the ULTRA lander line (same ULTRA design used on Mission 3).IM-5 Nova-DNET ~2030 class · First cargo-class Nova-D CLPS.Argonaut Mission 1 (ArgoNET)NET ~2030-2031 · ESA Argonaut Lunar Descent Element (LDE) is Europe's cargo lander transport element, primed by Thales Alenia Space Italy with Thales Alenia Space France, Thales Alenia Space UK, OHB System AG, and Nammo Space (UK) (ESA consortium 20 Nov 2025).Gateway PPE + HALOPaused · Paused Gateway integrated architecture: Maxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) with Northrop Grumman HALO habitation.