Team Indus to build moon lander for NASA
13, Jun 2019
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CONTEXT:
- Team Indus is part of a consortium that has bagged a contract from NASA to design and build a lander for its next lunar mission in 2020.
- NASA has awarded the consortium a $97 million contract to fly four payloads to Mare Imbrium, a lava plain in one of the Moon’s craters, bySeptember 2020.