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NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects - NASA

NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects - NASA

NASA announced a suite of awards and mission updates on Saturday to expand the agency's Moon Base exploration, science, and infrastructure capabilities. The

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Starship will carry comm satellites to lunar orbit in 2028? That'll be a light load and require fewer refillings in LEO but will still require some, afaik. So they're adding to their load in that short period of when they're flying the demo and then the crewed Artemis 4.

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Depends on on how may com says they are deploying. If it’s a full 60 than it would be starships max payload and would require the maximum number of refueling flights.
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I can't see NASA needing anymore than a handful of satellites now. Something like the current Starlinks because of the need for lasers, but possibly smaller. Anyway, I think a couple of smaller companies have the contract for the comsats.
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