Sean Mahoney, CEO David Masten, CTO and Chairman Reuben Garcia, Executive Manager of Landing Systems Matthew Kuhns, Chief Engineer
Products
Suborbital spacecraft Space systems Throttleable rocket engines Rocket propulsion hardware Reusable launch vehicles
Services
Rocket propulsion design and analysis Space hardware tests Concept demonstration Vertical landing software
Number of employees
84 (2020)
Website
masten.aero
Footnotes / references The company's slogan is "We Fly"
A XA0.1E "Xoie" rocket on the competition-winning landing in the Lunar Lander Challenge at Mojave on 30 October 2009.A XA0.1B "Xombie" lander tethered flight test on 11 September 2009.
Masten Space Systems was an aerospace manufacturer startup company in Mojave, California (formerly in Santa Clara, California) that was developing a line of vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets, initially for uncrewed research sub-orbital spaceflights and eventually intended to support robotic orbital spaceflight launches.
In 2020, NASA awarded Masten a contract for a lunar lander mission; NASA was to pay Masten US$75.9 million for Masten to build and launch a lander called XL-1 to take NASA and other customer payloads to the south pole of the Moon. Masten Mission One would have been Masten's first space flight; it was scheduled for launch in November 2023.[1]
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2022,[2] and was later acquired by Astrobotic Technology in September 2022.[3]
^Foust, Jeff (23 June 2021). "Masten delays first lunar lander mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
^@jeff_foust (July 29, 2022). "Masten Space Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^"Court approves sale of Masten assets to Astrobotic". September 11, 2022.
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