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Bengaluru firm Team Indus to design and build moon lander for NASA

NASA has selected three commercial moon-landing service providers to deliver science and technology payloads under CLPS

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File photo: A Team Indus member with a prototype lunar lander

T E Narasimhan Chennai
Bengaluru-based private aerospace firm Team Indus is part of a consortium that has bagged a contract from US space agency NASA to design and build a lander for its next lunar mission in 2020. 

A lander is a spacecraft that lands on an astronomical body.

NASA has selected three commercial moon-landing service providers to deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program.

The designing of the 21st century lunar lander is NASA’s new mission and the cost of the project is estimated to be over $250 million.

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