{"id":111961,"date":"2020-08-26T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-will-launch-mastens-first-lander-to-the-moon-in-2022"},"modified":"2020-08-26T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:23:07","slug":"spacex-will-launch-mastens-first-lander-to-the-moon-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-will-launch-mastens-first-lander-to-the-moon-in-2022","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will launch Masten\u2019s first lander to the moon in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SpaceX<\/a> has secured a contract to act as the launch partner for Masten Space Systems<\/a>, one of the companies awarded a NASA launch contract under that agency\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Masten\u2019s first lunar mission is set to take place in 2022 if all goes to plan, and will take the company\u2019s XL-1 lunar lander to the south pole of the moon with NASA<\/a> payloads on board, including scientific experimentation instruments, as well as cargo from commercial passengers.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s CLPS program is part of its broader efforts to expand partnerships with commercial space companies in order to ultimately lower its costs by sharing providers with other customers from private industry and commercial ventures. It\u2019s also a key staging component for NASA\u2019s Artemis program, which ultimately aims to put the first American woman and the next American man on the surface of the moon by 2024.<\/p>\n

The science equipment on Masten\u2019s lander will help the agency study the lunar south pole by gathering key data about the area. NASA\u2019s Artemis III mission will aim to land in the same part of the moon\u2019s surface, and CLPS landers will help it to be informed about the conditions and prepared with resources left in place by some of the uncrewed landers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX has secured a contract to act as the launch partner for Masten Space Systems, one of the companies awarded a NASA launch contract under that agency\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Masten\u2019s first lunar mission is set to take place in 2022 if all goes to plan, and will take the company\u2019s XL-1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}