Northrop Grumman appears to have exited the race to build an ISS replacement, while Blue Origin is redirecting staff away from its Orbital Reef project.
A rendering of Northrop Grumman’s proposed space station under the NASA Space Act Agreement, which will serve as one of the replacements to the ISS if the company continues work on it.NASA’s plans to retire the International Space Station and replace it with commercial projects are not kaput, they’re just changing. Wrinkles are now appearing in Blue Origin’s plans for Orbital Reef, while Northrop Grumman’s unnamed space station project might not even happen.
Some staff originally assigned to the space station have reportedly been redirected to work on the Blue Moon lunar lander, according to Reuters. The lander is being developed afterto build and test a human landing system in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics. The fully reusable Blue Moon lander will hold a crew of four and is expected to be a part of the Artemis 5 mission, scheduled for launch in 2029.
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