Under the terms of its agreement with Rocket Lab, AuroraSat will send the 1.5U CubeSat on an Electron rocket carrying other satellites.
Artemis programme
The two companies collaborated to pitch a conceptual Lunar Terrain Vehicle to NASA’s Artemis programme.
SpaceX was one of three companies that received initial HLS contracts nearly one year ago for early design work on their lander concepts.
The station, weighing about 40 metric tons, will be automatically assembled piece by piece in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon.
