Space infrastructure leader, Redwire Corporation, has announced its selection by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for participation in the 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) study. This collaboration positions Redwire to contribute to the design of essential services supporting a burgeoning commercial ecosystem on and around the Moon.
Redwire's role in the LunA-10 study will center on developing approaches for delivering crucial services to lunar assets from cislunar space. This includes high-speed communications and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). The aim is to establish a constellation of cislunar orbiting platforms that offer robust services and extensive lunar coverage, contributing significantly to the growth of a commercial lunar ecosystem.
The company, recognized for its leadership in cislunar architecture and technological advancements, brings decades of spaceflight heritage and expertise in space mission design, RF systems, and space structures to the forefront of lunar infrastructure development.
“We are proud to be selected by DARPA to design crucial lunar infrastructure as part of the groundbreaking LunA-10 study,” said Redwire Chief Technology Officer, Al Tadros. “Redwire’s decades of spaceflight heritage coupled with our experience working to develop lunar infrastructure technology, from RF systems to regolith processing, to in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing, puts us on the front lines of building a vibrant economy on the Moon and beyond.”
Redwire will work with the LunA-10 team to develop a cislunar architecture addressing three thrust areas solicited by DARPA: Transit/Mobility, Energy, and Communications. Interim results of this work will be presented publicly at the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Spring Meeting in April 2024.
LunA-10 adds to a growing portfolio of lunar infrastructure projects for the company, which leverage Redwire’s extensive experience in mission design, RF systems, power systems, vision systems, space structures, and in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing.
In July, Redwire announced it had been awarded a $12.9 Million NASA Tipping Point award to prototype technology meant to build critical infrastructure such as roads and landing pads on the lunar surface. Earlier this year, Redwire announced that it is providing its Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) technology for Astrobotic’s Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology (LVSAT) program to deliver power on the lunar surface. LVSAT will provide power for missions on the Moon starting with NASA’s Artemis program and will provide power needed for habitats and other lunar infrastructure.
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