Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 29, 2025, to correct the amount of data collected during Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission. NASA’s PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1) mission was designed to demonstrate technologies to help scientists better understand lunar resources ahead of crewed Artemis missions to the Moon.

Posted April 29, 2025

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Game Changing Development Program

Kennedy Space Center

Lunar Surface Technology Research

Missions

Moons

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Science & Research

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon

NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the Moon during Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded on March 16. Lunar dust is extremely abrasive and electrostatic, which means it clings to anything that carries a charge.

Posted March 27, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Blue Ghost (lander)

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Headquarters

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Science Continues After Firefly’s First Moon Mission Concludes

After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions.

Posted March 18, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA, Firefly Invite Media to Discuss End of Blue Ghost Moon Mission

NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the company’s successful Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon’s surface. Watch the news conference on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. U.S. media […]

Posted March 17, 2025

Blue Ghost (lander)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)

NASA Space Station Research Helps Power Moon Science

The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities from looking out at our universe to breakthroughs in medical research, and is an active proving ground for technology for future Moon exploration missions and beyond.

Posted March 14, 2025

Johnson Space Center

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Missions

Meet the Johnson CLPS Team Supporting NASA’s Lunar Exploration Goals

As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space Center in Houston, is paving the way for conducting lunar science for the benefit of humanity.

Posted March 14, 2025

General

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Langley Research Center

Missions

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Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, supported by Marshall Space Flight Center IN Huntsville, Alabama, has captured first-of-its-kind imagery of a lunar lander’s engine plumes interacting with the Moon’s surface, a key piece of data as trips to the Moon increase in the coming years under the agency’s Artemis campaign.

Posted March 13, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission

Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar […]

Posted March 7, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Johnson Space Center

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing

Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6.

Posted March 4, 2025

General

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Communications & Navigation Program

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon

NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface. The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from the GNSS (Global Navigation Satelli

Posted March 4, 2025