Race to the Moon · United States
Official target, as worded: Late 2026 (NASA, 20 Oct 2026; Voyager, 2 Nov 2026); slides at a NASA talk on 14 Oct 2026 listed no earlier than January 2027, The Space Review reported. Griffin Mission One ("Moon Base II") is a lander + rover mission in the CLPS / Moon Base programme by Voyager Lunar Systems (Astrobotic), a Voyager Technologies company (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
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Lander plus Astrolab’s FLIP rover for the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton, near the south pole, 10 payloads in all; on 15 Sep 2026 NASA expected it to be the only lunar launch of 2026. Falcon Heavy per Spaceflight Now. Voyager Technologies completed its acquisition of Astrobotic on 13 Jul 2026.
Sources differ: NASA’s own pages name the site differently: its Griffin-1 event page says "the Nobile Crater at the lunar South Pole"; its CLPS deliveries page says Mons Mouton. The two are neighbours, so we say "the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton".
Official target, as worded: Late 2026 (NASA, 20 Oct 2026; Voyager, 2 Nov 2026); slides at a NASA talk on 14 Oct 2026 listed no earlier than January 2027, The Space Review reported.
Griffin Mission One ("Moon Base II") is a lander + rover mission in the CLPS / Moon Base programme by Voyager Lunar Systems (Astrobotic), a Voyager Technologies company (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
Scheduled. Lander plus Astrolab’s FLIP rover for the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton, near the south pole, 10 payloads in all; on 15 Sep 2026 NASA expected it to be the only lunar launch of 2026.
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