Lunar Commercial Communication Ecosystem Is Major NASA Initiative For Coming Years
Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), Overseer Of NASA Deep Space Network, Near Earth Network And Space Network Is Aiming For Full Commercialization Of Direct To Earth Ground Stations By 2023, Tracking And Data Relay Satellites Commercialization By 2030; Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) To Ride With CLPS Provider Firefly Aerospace On Blue Ghost Lander In 2023 To Investigate Feasibility Of Extending GNSS Signals For PNT From Earth To Cislunar Space; Orbital Relay Constellation Linked To Surface Nodes Governed By Voluntary Interoperability Standard LunaNet To Be Implemented 2024-2028
Credits: NASA
CLPS Providers Astrobotic And Intuitive Machines Striving For Q4 Lunar Landings With Peregrine And Nova-C Landers; Emulated Interface Pairing Of NASA Water Detectors MSolo, NSS, And NIRVSS With Peregrine Successful, Instruments To Fly On Both Mission One (2021, Set To Launch On ULA Vulcan Centaur) And Rover Delivery Mission VIPER (2023); Intuitive Machines Delivering 5 NASA / 5 Commercial Payloads During IM-1 (2021) And IM-2 / TRIDENT Drill PRIME-1 (2022), Both Riding On SpaceX Falcon 9, As Is MASTEN XL-1 Lander For Task Order 19-C (2022)
USA Newspace Company Intuitive Machines Set For