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Topic: [Discuss] Blue Origin human landing system
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-08-2020 06:53 PM
   
Please use this topic to discuss the Blue Origin-led National Team human landing system, a commercial moon lander in support of NASA's Artemis program. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-08-2020 06:57 PM
From Blue Origin (via Twitter): Blue Origin's Nick Patrick and Mike Good, former NASA astronauts, visited Johnson Space Center to evaluate our National Team's engineering mockup – a step in our journey to return to the moon. We are fortunate to have their experience to ensure astronaut compatibility.  
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51267
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-06-2022 11:31 AM
Blue Origin has assembled a slightly different National Team in response to NASA's Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development solicitation. The National Team of Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics is competing for a NASA Sustaining Lunar Development contract to develop a human landing system for the Artemis program. In partnership with NASA, this team will achieve sustained presence on the Moon. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51267
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-19-2023 09:42 AM
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: Today, NASA announced that Blue Origin and partners Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotics and Honeybee Robotics will build a human landing system to deliver NASA astronauts to the lunar surface for the Artemis V mission. |
Headshot
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From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 05-19-2023 10:54 AM
By which means (which launch vehicle) will the Blue Origin's lander get to Gateway? Will it be launched fully fueled or will there be a refueling event along the way? |
GACspaceguy
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From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 05-19-2023 12:20 PM
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51267
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-19-2023 12:23 PM
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Originally posted by Headshot:
By which means (which launch vehicle) will the Blue Origin's lander get to Gateway? Will it be launched fully fueled...
Blue Origin will be using its New Glenn rocket to launch its Blue Moon lunar lander to the moon. Lockheed Martin, as part of the National Team, will provide a cis-lunar transporter, which will provide the refueling capability from low Earth orbit to a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) and the parking orbit where the Blue Moon lander will be located. |
Headshot
Member Posts: 1247
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 05-19-2023 01:15 PM
The "original" team included Northrop-Grumman. The new team does not. Did N-G pull out of its own volition? |
NukeGuy
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From: Irvine, CA USA
Registered: May 2014
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posted 05-20-2023 10:22 AM
If this is the sustainable long term solution, why continue with Lunar Starship? What difference does it make whether Lunar Starship makes a one-off landing in 2025 (at the very earliest) or this concept in 2030?On the other hand, this concept depends on New Glenn being ready. Given Blue Origin’s track record, how likely is this? It’s hard to see how cost escalations don’t put serious, if not fatal political pressure on this project. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51267
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-20-2023 10:49 AM
The contract awarded to SpaceX was to demonstrate an initial human landing system for Artemis III and evolve its design to meet the agency's requirements for sustainable exploration and to demonstrate the lander on Artemis IV. So when Blue Moon flies on Artemis V, NASA will have two lunar landers capable of supporting sustained exploration of the moon (i.e. month-long missions). And just as SpaceX is confident that Starship will be ready in time, so is Blue Origin about New Glenn. Both companies are preparing to ramp up their activities in the coming year. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51267
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-27-2023 10:20 AM
From Blue Moon (via X): We unveiled our nearly 3-story Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander demonstrator. MK1's early missions will pave the way and prove technologies for our MK2 lander for NASA's Human Landing System. These landers hitch a ride into space in New Glenn's 7-meter fairing. MK1 will be capable of delivering three metric tons to any location on the Moon's surface. That capacity makes it ideal for a variety of logistics, infrastructure, and science payloads. Our Blue Moon landers are architected for that future day when lunar ice can be used to manufacture LOX and LH2 propellants on the Moon.  |
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