Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Lunar Trailblazer
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Science
Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer arrived in Florida recently in advance of its launch later this month and has been integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Posted February 13, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the Moon’s subsurface and analyze where lunar resources may reside.
Posted February 12, 2025
CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology Demonstration
A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the lander that will deliver them to the Moon’s surface. Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Posted February 11, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the agency’s science and technology flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ second flight to the Moon.
Posted January 31, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
For the second time, Intuitive Machines will launch a lunar lander to deliver NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations to the Moon for the benefit of all.
Posted January 24, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Kennedy Space Center
Langley Research Center
Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA Space Technology has big travel plans for 2025, starting with a trip to the near side of the Moon! Among ten groundbreaking NASA science and technology demonstrations, two technologies are on a ride to survey lunar regolith – also known as “Moon dust” – to better understand surface interactions with incoming lander spacecraft and […]
Posted January 24, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Lunar Science
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where they will provide insights into the Moon’s environment and test technologies to support future astronauts landing safely on the lunar surface under the agency’s Artemis campaign.
Posted January 15, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
General
Johnson Space Center
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the agency is preparing to fly ten instruments aboard Firefly Aerospace’s first delivery to the Moon.
Posted January 14, 2025
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Marshall Space Flight Center
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Jan. 13, 2025, to reflect the correct affiliation for Maria Banks, CLPS project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted January 10, 2025
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