Firefly Genesis was a proposed lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace, planned as a mostly American-built version of the Beresheet lander designed by Israel Aerospace Industries. In July 2019 Firefly announced an intellectual property and engineering support agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries to create a U.S.-built version of the lander that crashed on the Moon in April 2019, and it offered Genesis to NASA for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, a NASA program for delivering science payloads to the lunar surface. NASA required that the majority of a lander be built in the United States, which is why Firefly described Genesis as a predominately US built design. Genesis was never built: after CLPS specifications changed, Firefly judged that it no longer met NASA requirements and began work on the Blue Ghost lander in 2021.
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US spacecraft company Firefly Aerospace Inc. has announced that it has signed an IP and engineering support agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) for technology based on its Beresheet lunar lander.
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This agreement with IAI will allow Firefly to build on our momentum and expand our lunar capabilities by creating a U.S.-built version of IAI's historic lunar lander.
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This agreement with IAI will allow Firefly to build on our momentum and expand our lunar capabilities by creating a U.S.-built version of IAI's historic lunar lander.
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US spacecraft company Firefly Aerospace Inc. has announced that it has signed an IP and engineering support agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1) for technology based on its Beresheet lunar lander.
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This agreement with IAI will allow Firefly to build on our momentum and expand our lunar capabilities by creating a U.S.-built version of IAI's historic lunar lander.
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'Genesis', a predominately US built version of the lander, delivers a low-cost integrated solution for reliable lunar surface missions.
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Firefly Aerospace is one of the nine companies selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver science payloads to the surface of the moon.
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Due to changes in CLPS specifications, Firefly determined that Genesis no longer met NASA's requirements and began work on the Blue Ghost in 2021.
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