Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Marshall Space Flight Center
Earth’s nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its Moon, yet to date humans have physically explored just 5% of its surface.
Posted December 18, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Commercial Crew
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Commercial Resupply
Europa
Europa Clipper
Exploration Ground Systems
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
GOES-R
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Jupiter Moons
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
Nova-C (Lander)
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Space Launch System (SLS)
From sending crew members to the International Space Station to launching a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine if it could support life, 2024 was a busy record setting year for NASA and its partners at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JANUARYFirst Lunar Lander Takes Flight The first flight of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]
Posted December 12, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Kennedy Space Center
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Tuesday, Dec.
Posted December 10, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Media accreditation is open for the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign for the benefit of humanity. A six-day launch window opens no earlier than mid-January 2025 for the first Firefly Aerospace launch to the lunar surface.
Posted November 25, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Commercial Space
Commercial Space Programs
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
NASA Headquarters
A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency’s latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award.
Posted August 29, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
As part of its commitment to a robust, sustainable lunar exploration program for the benefit of all, NASA issued a Request for Information Friday to seek interest from American companies and institutions in conducting a mission using the agency’s VIPER Moon rover.
Posted August 10, 2024
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
Following a comprehensive internal review, NASA announced Wednesday its intent to discontinue development of its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. NASA stated cost increases, delays to the launch date, and the risks of future cost growth as the reasons to stand down on the mission.
Posted July 17, 2024
Earth's Moon
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Science
Mars
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Science Instruments
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. It’s one […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
General
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 Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology.   Using transparent […]
Posted April 10, 2024
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