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SpaceRadar | Payload Selection Tool

MX-9 Frontier Class Explorer

Company Name: Moon Express, USA

Potentially available for future missions 

Planned Missions: Expedition Three: Harvest Moon (possibly cancelled)

First Mission Launch: To Be Announced

Payload Delivery Locations: First mission planned to land at Lunar South Pole 

Payload capacity - To Surface: 500 kg

Payload bay (size): > 30 cubic feet 

Power distribution (for payload): 50W (per payload) 

Cost: To lunar orbit - Possibly US $700,000/kg

Communications available: The Lander provides wired communications for the payload. Potentially, Wireless communications between mobile payloads and the lander might be available. 

First Mission Launch Vehicle: To Be Announced

Last Updated on August 2022

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