{"id":468682,"date":"2026-05-27T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:31:09","slug":"startups-win-nasa-contracts-for-lunar-rover-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468682\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups Win NASA Contracts For Lunar Rover Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Startups Win NASA Contracts For Lunar Rover Demos | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/endurance.jpg\" alt=\"endur\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA purchased two more missions aboard Blue Origin&#8217;s Blue Moon Mark 1 landers to fly rovers to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Blue Origin<\/p>\n<p>  CAPE CANAVERAL\u2014NASA has awarded contracts totaling nearly $1 billion for a pair of crew-capable lunar rovers and transportation services to land them on the Moon, hopefully ahead of the planned Artemis IV mission in early 2028, the agency announced May 26. The Lunar Terrain Vehicles (LTV) will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/klotzirenesized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/irene-klotz\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Klotz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Startups Win NASA Contracts For Lunar Rover Demos is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups Win NASA Contracts For Lunar Rover Demos | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content NASA purchased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-468682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}