Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Editor’s note: This release was updated Feb. 23, 2024, to add an image from the news conference and participant titles.
Posted February 24, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
NASA and Intuitive Machines will host a televised news conference at 5 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 23, to detail the Odysseus lander’s historic soft Moon landing.
Posted February 23, 2024
Commercial Space
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Missions
NASA Headquarters
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Feb. 21, 2024, to reflect updated times for the target landing of Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander and NASA coverage of the event. As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines is targeting no earlier than 5:30 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb.
Posted February 20, 2024
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Kennedy Space Center
At 1:05 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander, named Odysseus, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted February 15, 2024
Missions
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Marshall Space Flight Center
A suite of NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations is on the way to our nearest celestial neighbor for the benefit of humanity. Through this flight to the Moon, they will provide insights into the lunar surface environment and test technologies for future landers and Artemis astronauts. At 1:05 a.m.
Posted February 15, 2024
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
NASA is gearing up for a commercial robotic flight to the Moon under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Intuitive Machines will launch its Nova-C lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 14, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Posted February 13, 2024
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
NASA is using a simple but effective technology called Laser Retroreflective Arrays (LRAs) to determine the locations of lunar landers more accurately. They will be attached to most of the landers from United States companies as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Service (CLPS) initiative.
Posted February 13, 2024
NASA Headquarters
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Missions
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Feb. 8, 2024, to reflect an updated date and time for the lunar delivery readiness media teleconference. As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 12:57 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive […]
Posted February 7, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
When the second CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) delivery is launched to the Moon in mid-February, its NASA payloads will include an experiment that could change how human explorers, rovers, and spacecraft independently track their precise location on the Moon and in cis-lunar space.
Posted February 7, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)
Technology Demonstration
Editor’s note, Feb. 6, 2024: This article has been updated to clarify that the Radio Frequency Mass Gauge estimates how much propellant is available in a tank. It does not make an exact measurement. It’s easy to measure fuel in tanks on Earth, where gravity pulls the liquid to the bottom. But in space, the game […]
Posted February 6, 2024
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