Is there any prospect for some private entity to license the technology for Resource Prospector - like the way Bigelow licensed Transhab - to then further develop and build it under a CCDev-like contract?
..Lander was always problem as a NASA one would need significant funding.
He suggested that Blue Moon could be used initially to fly Resource Prospector, a NASA rover mission weighing a few hundred kilograms under development for launch in the early 2020s. NASA had initially been looking at international partners for landing the rover, but more recently project officials said a public-private partnership would be a more likely way to get to the moon.
The payload for Resource Prospector are fairly generic space science instruments
There does seem to a real plan now: Blue Origin has offered to use its lander to send Resource Prospector to the moon's surface...
Quote from: AegeanBlue on 10/25/2017 04:52 pmThere does seem to a real plan now: Blue Origin has offered to use its lander to send Resource Prospector to the moon's surface...Eh, how is that any more real than anything before ? BO is a company with a couple suborbital test flights under it's belt. A far cry from launching and landing anything on the Moon.