{"id":137553,"date":"2022-03-31T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/northrop-grumman-weighing-options-for-new-artemis-lunar-lander-competition"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:02:33","slug":"northrop-grumman-weighing-options-for-new-artemis-lunar-lander-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/northrop-grumman-weighing-options-for-new-artemis-lunar-lander-competition","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman weighing options for new Artemis lunar lander competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-weighing-options-for-new-artemis-lunar-lander-competition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman says it\u2019s still considering whether to rejoin a Blue Origin-led team for a second Artemis lunar lander competition or to go on its own.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing March 30 about the company\u2019s overall contributions to the Artemis program, executives said they were \u201cencouraged and excited\u201d about <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-to-support-development-of-second-artemis-lunar-lander\/\">NASA\u2019s plans to procure a second lander through the new Sustaining Lunar Development effort<\/a> announced March 23. That lander will join the one being developed by SpaceX and based on its Starship vehicle through Option A of the Human Landing System (HLS) program.<\/p>\n<p>Northrop Grumman competed for the original HLS award <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/blue-origin-lockheed-northrop-join-forces-for-artemis-lunar-lander\/\">as part of a \u201cNational Team\u201d led by Blue Origin<\/a> that also included Lockheed Martin and Draper. Northrop\u2019s role in that effort was to provide a transfer element that would transport the lunar module from the Gateway to low lunar orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman says it\u2019s still considering whether to rejoin a Blue Origin-led team for a second Artemis lunar lander competition or to go on its own. In a media briefing March 30 about the company\u2019s overall contributions to the Artemis program, executives said they were \u201cencouraged and excited\u201d about NASA\u2019s plans to procure [\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-137553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137553","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=137553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}