Round a dozen landers are aiming for landing on the lunar floor subsequent yr, with the purpose of growing the expertise needed to construct a everlasting human presence there.
This fusillade of launches is a part of an ongoing marketing campaign to ramp up exploration of the moon, fuelled partially by NASA’s Industrial Lunar Payload Providers (CLPS) programme. This entails funding spacecraft from personal corporations, which carry a mix of NASA’s personal science devices and payloads from different clients.