Why Blue Origins Lunar Lander Is A Radical Rethink
Blue Origin s National Team won a 3. 5 billion contract to develop and deploy a lunar lander for the Artemis program, this is for landings after Artemis III which is currently supposed to be handled by SpaceX s Starship. Blue Origin s lander won over 3 other options with only the Dynetics Alpaca lander coming close. Blue Origin is the leader of the National Team which includes Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic and others. It s a 16 meter tall 100 reusable lander with the propellent tanks placed above the crew module, allowing the crew to be close to the ground upon landing. While we don t really know that much about the vehicle, that does give me a perfect excuse to play with it in Kerbal Space Program 2 Follow me on Twitter for more updates: I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
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