Power that stays on after landing: solar arrays, batteries, night survival, and shared surface power.
Power jobs here are generation and storage on the vehicle and on the surface. Volta LightPort is on Blue Ghost Mission 2. The Zeno Power package is on Blue Ghost Mission 5. Rocket Lab arrays are on Blue Ghost Mission 1. Venturi batteries are on CX-2 with Astrolab CLV-1.
Mission brief
LunaGrid-Lite is the tethered surface power cargo. The Northrop demos are surface power cargo on Blue Moon MK1 Endurance. Sharp solar cells and the Furukawa battery are the SLIM power jobs.
Schematic
Job categories are power and night survival. Surface power cargo is LunaGrid-Lite, the Northrop demos, and Volta LightPort.
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
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
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
Yokogawa Electric signed R&D agreements with Toyota for prototype measurement and control equipment on the JAXA/Toyota pressurized rover (Lunar Cruiser): the control platform and battery measurement components.
Photovoltaic Investigation on the Lunar Surface (PILS) multi-technology solar array experiment on Blue Ghost M3 / CP-21 for lunar-environment solar performance comparison.
City Labs' tritium mini heater makes about 34 milliwatts in under 0.3 cubic centimeters, and the units stack toward watt-level heat for the lunar night.
NASA STMD Tipping Point / funded Space Act partnership with Astrobotic (~$34.6M public) for a high-voltage power transmission demo on the Moon: a CubeRover unreels ultra-light cable from an Astrobotic lander and receives about 1 kW.
Vast Lunar Programs proposes a lunar surface power station with solar generation, energy storage, and power distribution for subsequent Moon Base activities.
Flights
Beresheet2019-02-22 · SpaceIL / IAI Beresheet, private/national hybrid soft-landing attempt.Hakuto-R Mission 12022-12-11 · Private Japanese lander.Chandrayaan-32023-07-14 · ISRO national soft-landing mission near lunar south polar highlands.SLIM2023-09-07 · JAXA SLIM precision soft-landing demo.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).IM-2 Athena2025-02-27 · IM-2 Athena (PRIME-1 path): south polar attempt (Mar 2025).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.Artemis IIINET late 2027 · NASA: Artemis III is a 2027 crewed demonstration in low Earth orbit.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.MoonFallNET 2028 · NASA JPL MoonFall sends four propulsive hop drones to the south pole in 2028.Starship Lunar Cargo (HLS path)NET late 2020s-2030s (HLS path) · SpaceX Starship lunar architecture: NASA HLS crew lander path plus heavy cargo configurations.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.Blue Ghost Mission 4NET ~2029 · South-pole CLPS with multiple rovers (MoonRanger, CSA path) and instruments.