Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA Invites Media to Second Intuitive Machines Launch to Moon

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 Tech’s Favorite Place to Travel in 2025: The Moon!

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

Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight

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

Ten NASA Science, Tech Instruments Flying to Moon on Firefly Lander

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

General

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1

Posted January 13, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch

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

Goddard Space Flight Center

Artemis

Blue Ghost (lander)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Earth's Moon

Near Space Network

Space Communications & Navigation Program

NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology

As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.

Posted January 10, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior

LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

Posted January 10, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space

Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation.

Posted January 8, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Kennedy Space Center

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Electrodynamic Dust Shield Heading to Moon on Firefly Lander

Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are seeking innovative ways to use the Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology. The […]

Posted January 8, 2025