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Artemis

The NASA-led programme to return humans to the Moon and build sustained operations there, together with international and commercial partners.

Why it matters

Artemis matters beyond its own flights because it is the demand signal underneath much of the current lunar economy. Commercial lander contracts, cargo delivery services and a surrounding supply chain exist largely because the programme created a customer where there was none. That also makes it a concentration risk: a schedule slip or a budget decision propagates into companies whose business plans assume the programme continues.

In our data

Artemis is one of the single most-covered subjects across our 688 published articles, and its influence is visible in the manifest: the 5 lunar missions we track are mostly commercial vehicles carrying payloads into an ecosystem the programme brought into being.

Missions we track

2026-04-09 SLS Block 1 | Artemis II Success
2026-11-30 Falcon Heavy | Griffin Mission One To Be Determined
2026-12-31 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 2 To Be Determined

Where we use it

Not to be confused with

Apollo, which was a sprint to land and return with no intent to stay, and the commercial lunar delivery services that fly under the programme's umbrella but are separately contracted missions in their own right.