NASA Hires Firefly Aerospace to Build a Drone Aircraft Carrier -- to the Moon
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- FLY NVDA INTC NASA s Moon Base plans are shifting into high gear.
- Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need.
- Its cargo: four 550-pound, 7-foot-wide, 4-foot-tall "hopping" drones built for NASA by CalTech s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
FLY NVDA INTC NASA s Moon Base plans are shifting into high gear. As part of a wide-ranging "update on Moon Base rovers, landers, missions" last month, NASA announced a novel plan for mapping the Moon s surface -- and it involves Firefly Aerospace (NASDAQ: FLY), the first American company to land a spacecraft on the Moon (upright) in the past 50 years. Here s how it s going to work.
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It sounds a bit like a James Bond movie title, but NASA has dubbed its latest lunar project "MoonFall." Launching atop an as-yet-unidentified carrier rocket sometime in 2028, Firefly Aerospace will send one of its Elytra Dark spacecraft (the largest and most capable of the Elytra versions) to the Moon. Its cargo: four 550-pound, 7-foot-wide, 4-foot-tall "hopping" drones built for NASA by CalTech s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Thirty miles above the lunar surface, Elytra will deploy its cargo to descend independently to the Moon. (Elytra itself will remain in lunar orbit.)