• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      25 days ago

      Some things take a long time regardless of how much money you have.

      Both the investigation and the rebuild of the pad will take a very long time with no real way to safely speed that up.

  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    To expand on this, the Blue Moon lander family is building up a huge manifest. In roughly this order, I count 7ish missions:

    • Mk1 Pathfinder: land on the moon 2026
    • Mk1: land Viper rover 2027
    • Mk2 Pathfinder: Artemis 3 docking target 2027
    • Mk1: land Lunar Outpost crew rover for A4
    • Mk1: land Astrolab crew rover for A4
    • Mk2: uncrewed demo landing
    • Mk2: crewed lunar landing for Artemis… 6?

    That is an obscene amount of hardware for Blue, which was already going to be a huge challenge, but further delaying the launch of Mk1 Pathfinder makes things even worse for the future vehicles.