Griffin Mission One¶
Astrobotic (Voyager Lunar Systems since July 2026) · Griffin · manifested
Launch: late 2026 (NASA, Aug 2026); no earlier than November 2026 (Voyager, Jul 2026). Landing: not in public sources.
NASA calls it Moon Base II. VIPER, the original payload, moved to Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2 (CS-7). NASA's August 2026 article puts five NASA payloads on Astrolab's FLIP rover; Astrolab lists four on FLIP; NASA's TO20A page puts an LRA on the lander. NASA's Moon Base page lists two LRAs without saying where; this study reads it as one on the lander and one on FLIP. The same NASA page also lists LDES for IM-3. Landing site: Mons Mouton (NASA's TO20A page); Wikipedia says Nobile Crater. Voyager lists ten payloads in all, including Astrolab's FLIP rover and Voyager's CubeRover; those are not listed here. The two lander systems are listed because the study tracks them.
Wikipedia: Griffin Mission One.
| Payload | Kind | FO | Earlier flights | On the Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Exploration for Titanium with Active Lighting (METAL) | NASA payload | company-level | Earth orbit or deep space | not yet flown |
| Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), on the lander | NASA payload | none | Earth orbit or deep space, earlier lunar mission | not yet flown |
| Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), on the FLIP rover | NASA payload | none | Earth orbit or deep space, earlier lunar mission | not yet flown |
| Lunar Dust Level Sensor and Effects on Surfaces (LDES) | NASA payload | company-level | none found | not yet flown |
| Lunar LiDAR Demonstration | NASA payload | none | none found | not yet flown |
| Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL), Psionic-built copy of the engineering test unit | lander system | tested | Earth orbit or deep space, FO, NASA test vehicle, aircraft (not FO), earlier lunar mission | not yet flown |
| Hazard Detection (HD) Lidar | lander system | tested | FO, other | not yet flown |