To expand on this, the Blue Moon lander family is building up a huge manifest. In roughly this order, I count 7ish missions:
Mk1 Pathfinder: land on the moon 2026
Mk1: land Viper rover 2027
Mk2 Pathfinder: Artemis 3 docking target 2027
Mk1: land Lunar Outpost crew rover for A4
Mk1: land Astrolab crew rover for A4
Mk2: uncrewed demo landing
Mk2: crewed lunar landing for Artemis… 6?
That is an obscene amount of hardware for Blue, which was already going to be a huge challenge, but further delaying the launch of Mk1 Pathfinder makes things even worse for the future vehicles.
To expand on this, the Blue Moon lander family is building up a huge manifest. In roughly this order, I count 7ish missions:
That is an obscene amount of hardware for Blue, which was already going to be a huge challenge, but further delaying the launch of Mk1 Pathfinder makes things even worse for the future vehicles.
Move fast and break things vs move slow and break things