Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

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

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Lander to Test Vacuum Cleaner on Moon for Sample Collection

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

Posted January 8, 2025

NASA Centers & Facilities

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Johnson Space Center

Missions

NASA Names Adam Schlesinger as Commercial Lunar Payload Services Project Manager

NASA has selected Adam Schlesinger as manager for CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services). Schlesinger previously served as the Gateway Program habitation and logistics outpost project lead engineer at Johnson Space Center.

Posted January 6, 2025

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Magnetic Field

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Magnetosphere

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

The Sun

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]

Posted January 3, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Anticipates Lunar Findings From Next-Generation Retroreflector

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the incoming light back in the same incoming direction.

Posted January 2, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Science Payload to Study Sticky Lunar Dust Challenge

The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as “lunar regolith.” During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, powdery dust – electromagnetically charged due to constant bombardment by solar and cosmic particles – is extremely abrasive and cl

Posted December 20, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

More NASA Science, Tech will Fly to Moon Aboard Future Firefly Flight

NASA continues to advance its campaign to explore more of the Moon than ever before, awarding Firefly Aerospace $179 million to deliver six experiments to the lunar surface. This fourth task order for Firefly will target landing in the Gruithuisen Domes on the near side of the Moon in 2028. As part of the agency’s […]

Posted December 18, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center