Tuesday, November 19, 2019

SpaceX, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Selected For NASA Lunar Landing Effort

Two, Southern California companies--Hawthorne-based SpaceX and Irvine-based Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, have both been selected as part of a NASA program aimed at landing payloads to the Moon. According to NASA, the two are part of five companies which will take part in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), which will make them eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the moon. The two are part of what are now 14 participants in the program. NASA said it is looking to build a marketplace to deliver payloads between the Earth and the Moon, with a target of enabling the first woman and next man to set foot on the Moon by 2024.

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