Draper Laboratory

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Created: 2019-01-22

Updated: 2024-03-02

Company - Draper Laboratory

Founded
Country
1932
USA
Funding
Yes, ?
Website
Draper Laboratory
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Draper Laboratory

Product/Service - SERIES-2 Lander

Classification
Cargo Transportation & Landers
Category
Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Commercial Rover
Commercial Lunar Lander
Fields
Prospecting
Status
Development
First launch
2025
Partners
ispace, General Atomics

NASA announced in July 2022 that it selected a team led by Draper for the 2025 mission to land in Schrödinger Basin, an impact basin about 320 kilometers across on the lunar farside near the south pole.

Draper is proud to partner with ispace as it sets its sights on becoming the first commercial space company with a mission to land on the moon. From the Apollo era to today, Draper is a leader in space systems design and development.

Draper has completed the first milestones of a NASA award to perform the first commercial landing on the far side of the moon in 2025.

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