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Space Technology Overview Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Spring Meeting

Mr. James Reuter | Associate Administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate | 05.11.2021 2 STMD FY 2021-2022 Highlights

Blue Origin Deorbit Descent & Mars 2020 Perseverance: MOXIE, MEDLI2, MEDA and TRN Laser Comm Relay Demo Landing (BODDL-TP)/SPLICE Robotic Refueling Mission 3 February 2021 and beyond.. June 2021 October 2020 On Orbit Robotics Ops Mars Landing & Surface Operations and Demo October 2020 Flight demo 1 aboard suborbital Launch Operations Complete rocket

Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1) CLPS Mission Cold Operable Deployable Plume Surface April 2021 Spring 2022 Arm (COLDArm) Cryo Fluid Technologies Interaction (PSI) MSolo and TRIDENT assembled for Intuitive Machine’s “hopper” April 2021 CAPSTONE/NRHO April 2021 mission in partnership with January 2021 environmental testing w/ delivery to Mission Concept Review Fall 2021 Physics focused Nokia to est. 4G/LTE tech for 20/watt 20/Kelvin compressors CLPS provider Intuitive Machine in Launch ground test lunar exploration completed and spin-tested Spring 2022

Deep Space OSAM-1 and OSAM-2 TALOS and A-TRN LOFTID Blue Origin Deorbit Descent & Summer 2021 December/TBD 2021 June 2022 Optical Comm SEP Landing Sensor (BODDL-TP)/SPLICE Delivery to ULA August 2022 October 2021 Critical Design Reviews Summer 2021 TALOS and A-TRN flight on Critical Design Review Astrobotic Peregrine 1 lander Launch Flight demo 2 aboard suborbital rocket 3

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII) Collaboration Highlights

LSII has awarded ~$200M over a broad range of STMD Programs to establish collaborations across industry and academia.

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Technology Demonstrations (i.e. PRIME-1 mass

Collaborations & Partnerships spectrometer and drill, Nokia 4G Wireless and Intuitive Machines Deployable Hopper)

$127M – Tipping Points & Collaborative Opportunities (10 TPs & 5 ACOs selected in 2020)

$36M – SBIRs (Ph. I, II, III, CCRPP, Lunar Sequentials)

$14M – Space Technology Research Grants (6 LuSTR Opportunity, ECF, ESI)

$9.9M – NextSTEP BAA (9 ISRU awardees with multiple ground demos)

$3.5M – Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) Solicitation (5 Phase I Awards)

$3M – NIACs (including first Phase 3 award for Exploration of Lunar Pits)

$2M – Breakthrough Innovative Game-changing (BIG) Challenge 2020 Permanently Shadowed Region – 8 teams; 2021 Dust – 7 teams

$1.4M – NASA Tournament Labs (GrabCAD, Yet2, HeroX) Open-source Challenges

$1M – Centennial Challenges (’Watts on the ’ & ‘Break the Ice’ Challenges)

APL LSII Integration and Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Note: FY20-21 Awards 5 LSII Technology Planning Demonstration Excavation & Extreme Extreme Dust Surface 2020 ISRU Construction Access Environments Mitigation Power LSII early technologies lunar leverages of core development surface missions to accelerate Polar Resources Experiment Ice Mining (PRIME) Opportunity Opportunity Hopper CLPS Tipping Point Early Scouts Surface Robotic Dust Shield Dust Shield Electrodynamic Rover (VIPER/SMD) Polar Exploration Volatiles Investigating Gears Glass Metallic Lunar Arm w/ Bulk ISRU Pilot Excavator Pilot ISRU Lunar DustRemovalTool Affects onRadiators Lunar DustLevelSensor& for CrewedEnvironments Lunar DustSmartSensor Ice- Demo ISRU ISRU Mining Demo Lunar Navigation Lunar Thermal Toolbox Lunar Thermal Toolbox Demo Lunar Materials Lunar Dust Separation Construction Construction Demo 1 Lunar Surface System Guidance Video Extraction Demo Oxygen ISRU Technology (VSAT) Vertical SolarArray Lunar SurfaceDemo Wireless Chargingfor Cell Power Regenerative Fuel Lunar Camera Avoidance Rover Obstacle Lunar Day/Night (CHIPS) Power Source Integrated Chemical Heat (Landing Pad) Pad) (Landing Construction Demo Lunar Surface Deployable Hopper Deployable Autonomous Robotics Power Demo Surface Fission Processing Processing Demo ISRU ISRU Survivability Material Lunar Night of Lunar Pits Autonomous Exploration ISRU Pilot Plant Pilot ISRU 2030 6 Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) More than 1,000 active participants from over 300 organizations across 44 states, increasing monthly • Held 3 bi-annual consortium meetings § National kick-off Feb. 2020 § Fall meeting Oct. 2020 § Spring meeting May 2021 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is the lead for the LSIC and overall System Integrator for LSII • Conducted 3 thematic Workshops in 2020-2021: § ISRU Supply Demand Workshop on Sept. 2020 • over 200 participants LSII Representation § Dust Mitigation Workshop on Feb. 2021 • over 350 participants § Lunar Mapping for Precision Landing Workshop March 2021 • over 400 participants • Awarded 6 LuSTR Grants for ISRU and Power • Active participation in monthly Focus Groups • Conducted a Lunar Surface Power Report to assess the current stage of STMD-funded power-related technologies for LSII • Conducted a Lunar Surface In- Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Technology and System Integration Assessment to identify gaps that remain in the development and maturation of ISRU technologies needed to meet NASA goals • Performed a Lunar Simulant Assessment to understand the availability of existing lunar simulants that may be used in technology development efforts for lunar surface operations. • Expanded APL support to provide System Integration across all six LSII capability areas 7 STMD BY THE NUMBERS (FY 2020)

> 3,700 > 900 >400 > 140 Proposals Proposals University Planned flight evaluated selected partnerships with demonstrations >100 universities

> 1,400 > 150 > 500 > 900 Active Patent licenses to Industry Transitions technology companies collaborators since 2011 projects

For additional information on STMD’s Solicitation and Opportunities https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/solicitations 8 www..gov/spacetech