ULA's Vulcan Centaur to launch in early '23, with lunar lander and first Amazon broadband sats
Private rocketry outfit United Launch Alliance will send its Vulcan Centaur craft into orbit for the first time in the first quarter of 2023 , carrying two important payloads.
One will be a pair of satellites belonging to Amazon's planned Project Kuiper broadband-beaming constellation. Amazon plans to build and launch 3,236 satellites at a cost of over $10 billion, and hasULA, Arianespace, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's rocket company Blue Origin to do the job.
The second payload is Peregrine – a lunar lander built by private space biz Astrobotic Technology that will in turn carry several autonomous mini-bots to rove across Luna. NASA has funded the mission by buying space on the lander and helping to develop its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The mission is Astrobotic's to manage, but NASA will take a very keen interest given it has paid for its place.
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