The origin of the Blue Ceff Bizos, wins a contract for NASA Rover to the moon

NASA satellite Rover can be delivered to the moon by blue origin, Jeff Bezos Aviation. Its American Space Agency has Gave The company is important to designing a ride delivery plan, with a future delivery option.

The award was released, at a value of $ 190 million, through NASA Commercial lunar load services program (CLPS)The agency uses to purchase delivery services to the moon from private companies. The award does not directly mean the delivery agreement; First, NASA will achieve whether the blue origin is able to send expensive Viper Rover to the southern pole of the moon. To be eligible to take over the delivery of Viper, the company must put Blue Moon MK1 Lander – Complete with NASA technology – on the moon’s surface by the end of 2025.

The blue origin won this contract to send goods to the moon in 2023, and designed Blue Moon MK1 to fulfill it. In this task, NASA cameras that will conduct surface surveys, as well as small fields with laser technology to track the task.

The agency said in a statement.

On the same day that NASA announced the award, the blue origin Books on x“Lander Blue Moon Second Moon MK1 is already in production and is completely suitable for Viper Rover. Based on lessons from the first MK1 Lander, this task is important for future lunar perpetuation and will learn us about the origin and distribution of water on the moon.”

VIPER – which symbolizes the volatile materials achieved in exploring Polar Explography – by NASA scientists to explore the southern pole of the moon of ice and other resources of interest. It is about 2.5 meters long, weighs about 500 kilograms, and contains one training and three scientific tools. The car was to be launched in 2023, only to pay this date. Then, in the face of high costs and additional delay, NASA said in July 2024 Eliminate The task. It seems that the Blue Orige Award has revived the program.

The arrival of private space companies has the ability to reduce traditional costs to explore the space while allowing the directors of the task to focus on scientific issues. Blue, Firefly Aerospace, and Spacex are just some companies that have appeared in this sector and won CLPS contracts with NASA.

“NASA leads the world to explore more of the moon more than ever, and this delivery is just one of the many ways that we benefit from the American industry to support a long -term American presence on the surface statement. “Roverna will explore the extreme environment of the southern lunar pole, as it travels to small shaded areas permanently to help inform the future landing sites of our space pioneers and better understand the moon environment – basic visions to maintain humans on longer missions, as America leads our future in space.”

This story was originally appeared on Wireless En español It was translated from Spanish.