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Honeybee Robotics

Blue Origin-owned robotics company in California that builds drills, samplers and rovers for the Moon and Mars. Two of its instruments worked on Firefly's 2025 Blue Ghost landing, and it is building a rover for a 2028 mission.

A Blue Origin company (NASA, 2025-01-08); acquisition date and terms not sourced here.

Products, by altitude

The Moon · 384,400 km from Earth

  • In service

    LISTER

    Drill that measures heat flowing beneath the Moon's surface

  • In service

    Lunar PlanetVac

    Vacuum-style sampler that blows Moon soil into a container

Milestones

  • Mar 2025 Firefly Aerospace selected Honeybee Robotics to provide the rover for its $179 million NASA task order to the Gruithuisen Domes in 2028. Company statement⁠1

Sources

  1. ExecutiveBizMar 25, 2025
  2. NASAJan 8, 2025

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