NASA awards $590 million across four lunar lander missions
Astrobotic Technology · Firefly Aerospace · Intuitive Machines · NASA
Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines split nearly $600 million in new NASA lunar lander task orders.
what happened
Per SpaceNews, on June 30, 2026 NASA awarded task orders totaling $590.4 million for four lunar lander missions: $297.9 million to Astrobotic Technology for two Peregrine lander flights, $144.2 million to Firefly Aerospace for one Blue Ghost lander, and $148.3 million to Intuitive Machines for one Nova-C lander. All four missions are scheduled for late 2028 and will carry an identical instrument set, including SCALPSS cameras, a LETS radiation spectrometer, and a Laser Retroreflector Array; Astrobotic's landers target the Gruithuisen Domes region.
why it matters
This is Astrobotic's first award since its 2020 Griffin-1 selection and the sixth and fifth missions respectively for Intuitive Machines and Firefly, showing NASA continuing to spread lunar delivery task orders across all three qualified providers rather than consolidating around the two with landings already under their belt.
for who
Commercial lunar delivery providers, Artemis program watchers
signal-to-noise
quick facts
- Companies
- Astrobotic Technology, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines, NASA
- Category
- procurement
- Impact
- major
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-06-30
- Published
- 2026-07-05 08:57 UTC