Commercial cargo landers and human landing systems.
The lander delivery category is the build of the vehicle that carries a flight. Beresheet, each Blue Ghost delivery, and the Starship HLS awards sit in that category.
Mission brief
Blue Ghost Mission 1 through Mission 5 each keep a delivery job. Beresheet is the SpaceIL and IAI delivery. Starship HLS Option B and the lunar landing demonstration are the crew landing awards.
Schematic
Jobs in the lander delivery category are the vehicles. Lander cargo is the Starship docking adapter on Artemis III and the human landing system seats on Artemis IV and Artemis V. The shelf groups the work as cargo landers and crew landers.
Redwire supplied the cameras, the vision navigation processor and the floodlights that flew on Blue Ghost Mission 1, giving the lander imagery and vision-based navigation through descent and on the surface. · Blue Ghost Mission 1 · 2025-01-15
Venturi Astrolab FLIP tech-demo rover on Griffin-1 maturing FLEX/LTV-relevant mobility, power, and avionics. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
NanoFiche's Galactic Library to Preserve Humanity is a nano-engraved archive of literature, art and intellectual works on a nickel and gold medium, booked as commercial cargo on Griffin-1. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
Two NASA Goddard laser retroreflector arrays on Griffin-1, precise surface fiducials for tracking and navigation. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
NASA JSC dust-accumulation sensor on Griffin-1 (Moon Base II), how lunar dust piles on spacecraft and surface systems. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
NASA Marshall laser mapping demo on Griffin-1, 3D terrain maps of the south-pole landing site (time-of-flight lidar). · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
Moon Pi is a community payload from Stand Up Maths that calculates the constant pi on the lunar surface, using spare rover computing capacity on Griffin-1. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
Astrobotic's MoonBox carries small personal mementos booked by customers on Griffin-1, aggregated into a single manifest and intended to stay on the surface. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
Soratan is a Nippon Travel Agency time capsule on Griffin-1: a memorial plate shaped like the company's space mascot and engraved with QR codes that carry stored messages. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026
Spaceomix, the University of Malta, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Space Applications Services are developing Lunar BioVault as a long-term solid-state scientific digital archive. · Blue Moon MK1 Endurance (Moon Base I) · NET Q1 2027
NASA JSC LDES on IM-3 Trinity, dust accumulation on lander/surface systems at Reiner Gamma (second public LDES flight after Griffin). · IM-3 Trinity · NET Q1 2027
Northrop Grumman's Lunar Infrastructure Demos carry a HALO-derived surface power path as Moon Base cargo on Blue Moon MK1 Endurance. · Blue Moon MK1 Endurance (Moon Base I) · NET Q1 2027
LuSEE-Night is a low-frequency radio telescope on Blue Ghost Mission 2, led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the Department of Energy. · Blue Ghost Mission 2 · NET 2027
Space Applications Services LUVMI-M commercial lunar rover on Blue Origin Blue Moon MK1 to the lunar south pole (Belga/VRT: NET early 2029). · Blue Moon MK1 Endurance (Moon Base I) · NET Q1 2027
SCALPSS 1.x, the Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies from NASA Langley, is an array of high-resolution cameras that collect imagery during descent on Blue Moon MK1. · Blue Moon MK1 Endurance (Moon Base I) · NET Q1 2027
Volta Space Technologies' LightPort is a wireless power receiver riding the top deck of the Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander on the far side. · Blue Ghost Mission 2 · NET 2027
Planetary Science Institute Heimdall four-camera system (descent, workspace, regolith, panoramic) on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21. · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028
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
Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) PRISM-class suite on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 Gruithuisen Domes, rover+lander cameras, radiometer, gamma-ray/neutron spectrometer path. · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028
Neutron Measurements at the Lunar Surface (NMLS) thermal/epithermal neutron monitor on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 for surface context and remote-sensing calibration. · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028
Photovoltaic Investigation on the Lunar Surface (PILS) multi-technology solar array experiment on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 for lunar-environment solar performance comparison. · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028
Radio wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) low-frequency radio spectrometer on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 (heritage instrument class from IM-1). · Blue Ghost Mission 3 · NET ~2028
SpaceX Starship is NASA's contracted human landing system and a heavy cargo lander class. · Starship Lunar Cargo (HLS path) · NET late 2020s-2030s (HLS path)
Commercial radioisotope heater unit (americium-241, 5 Wt class) and support platform on Firefly's 2028 near-side Blue Ghost (CS-8 / Mission 5). · Blue Ghost Mission 5 (Moon Base CS-8) · NET ~2028 (CS-8 Moon Base)
Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy operations launch CLPS and private lunar landers, including Intuitive Machines, Firefly, ispace, and Astrobotic Griffin.
China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) designed/developed Chang'e-5 four-module stack (orbiter/service module, lander, ascender, returner) for CNSA lunar sample return.
Astrobotic designed and built the Peregrine lander in Pittsburgh, including structure, avionics integration, and assembly for Mission One and later vehicles.
Xometry CNC-machined primer-coated titanium spool fittings that bind Odysseus honeycomb panels (IM: hundreds on the vehicle) plus a CNC landing-gear plate.
Scorpius Space Launch Company supplies liner-less PRESSURMAXX Type V all-composite LOX/LCH4 cryogenic propellant tanks for Intuitive Machines Nova-C and Nova-D lunar landers.
Swedish Space Corporation sole ground-station communications provider for Blue Ghost M1 transit and surface ops (Santiago, Hawaii, Australia + partners).
Airbus landing legs (Griffin-1) is Airbus Defence and Space's structure and mechanisms for Astrobotic on Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) (Airbus landing legs (Griffin-1)).
Unison Industries holds a public long-term agreement with Blue Origin for ignition systems on BE-7, the liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen engine for Blue Moon.
Space Applications Services LUVMI-M is a commercially funded Belgian lunar rover booked on Blue Origin Blue Moon MK1 for early 2029 delivery to the lunar south pole.
On 30 April 2024 NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson spent a day on Starship HLS development hardware at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
SpaceX Updates: fabricating a flight-article Starship HLS cabin with functional avionics and power, crew systems and mechanisms, ECLSS, cabin/crew communications, and cabin thermal control.
Public SpaceX/NASA HLS milestones include full-scale cabin environmental control and life support / thermal control demonstrations (O2/N2 injection, air distribution, humidity, thermal).
Venturi Astrolab Crewed Lunar Vehicle CLV-1 (FLEX-derived) under NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services Phase 1 High Achievability Mission award for crewed/uncrewed lunar mobility.
Interlune is named with Astrolab on CLV-1 lunar-environment survival work, including simulant testing at the Interlune Research Lab in Texas, on the CX-2 delivery path with Blue Origin Blue Moon MK1.
Neutron Measurements at the Lunar Surface (NMLS) thermal/epithermal neutron monitor on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 for surface context and remote-sensing calibration.
Photovoltaic Investigation on the Lunar Surface (PILS) multi-technology solar array experiment on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 for lunar-environment solar performance comparison.
Radio wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES) low-frequency radio spectrometer on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 (heritage instrument class from IM-1).
NASA NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar Development selection (2023): Blue Origin develops Blue Moon MK2 human landing system as second Artemis HLS provider.
NASA Moon Base is a series of robotic landings that deliver science, cargo, and equipment toward a lasting south-polar presence.
Flights
Beresheet2019-02-22 · SpaceIL / IAI Beresheet, private/national hybrid soft-landing attempt.Chang'e-52020-11-23 · CNSA national lunar sample-return (near side).Hakuto-R Mission 12022-12-11 · Private Japanese lander.Chandrayaan-32023-07-14 · ISRO national soft-landing mission near lunar south polar highlands.Luna-252023-08-10 · Roscosmos national polar lander (Luna-25).SLIM2023-09-07 · JAXA SLIM precision soft-landing demo.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).Chang'e-62024-05-03 · CNSA national far-side lunar sample-return via Queqiao-2 relay.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).CP-12 Draper / ispace APEXCancelled July 2026 · Draper APEX 1.0 far-side CLPS award (CP-12).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.IM-4NET ~2027 · Six NASA science payloads to Mons Mouton / south polar highlands.Chang'e-7NET 2027 · CNSA south-pole complex (orbiter, lander, rover, hopper) focused on water-ice and polar environment.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).CX-2 Lunar Terrain Vehicle DeliveryNET 2028 · NASA CX-2 CLPS task order: Blue Origin Blue Moon MK1 delivers Astrolab CLV-1 and Lunar Outpost Pegasus to the lunar south pole.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.ispace Mission 3 ULTRANET 2028 · ispace Japan ULTRA lunar lander, inaugural ULTRA flight.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).