Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Lunar Science

6 Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it’s in, how much is there, and how it changes over time. Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the Moon’s water? After sharing a […]

Posted February 26, 2025

General

Johnson Space Center

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Mission

Posted February 25, 2025

Artemis

Game Changing Development Program

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

Missions

NASA Headquarters

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Science Mission Directorate

Five Facts About NASA’s Moon Bound Technology

NASA is sending revolutionary technologies to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ second lunar delivery as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface.  As part of this CLPS flight to the Moon, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will te

Posted February 25, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launch

Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26. The mission will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s […]

Posted February 21, 2025

Artemis

Earth's Moon

NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing

With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, a plain in the northeast quadrant on the near side of […]

Posted February 14, 2025

Lunar Trailblazer

Earth's Moon

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lunar Science

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon

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

NASA’s Polar Ice Experiment Paves Way for Future Moon Missions

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)

Earth's Moon

Game Changing Development Program

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Technology

Technology Demonstration

NASA’s Mini Rover Team Is Packed for Lunar Journey

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

Artemis

Missions

Science Mission Directorate