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

NASA Tests New Spacecraft Propellant Gauge on Lunar Lander

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

Langley Research Center

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

NASA’s Laser Navigation Tech Enables Commercial Lunar Exploration

Later this month, NASA’s commercial lunar delivery services provider Intuitive Machines will launch its Nova-C lunar lander carrying several NASA science and technology payloads, including the Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL).

Posted February 5, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Langley Research Center

Tiny NASA Cameras to Picture Interaction Between Lander, Moon’s Surface

Say cheese, Moon. We’re coming in for a close-up. As Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander descends toward the Moon, four tiny NASA cameras will be trained on the lunar surface, collecting imagery of how the surface changes from interactions with the spacecraft’s engine plume.

Posted February 2, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science

In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. This mission is part of CLPS’ ongoing effort to bring down the cost for science investigations and technology demonstrations going to the Moon and to make them more routine […]

Posted February 1, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Intuitive Machines IM-1 Mission

Posted January 31, 2024

Commercial Space

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Commercial Space Programs

Missions

NASA to Discuss Science, First Intuitive Machines Artemis Moon Flight

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan.

Posted January 24, 2024

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Missions

NASA Headquarters

NASA Invites Media to First Intuitive Machines, SpaceX Moon Launch

As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all.

Posted January 22, 2024

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Johnson Space Center

NASA Headquarters

NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes

The first flight of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 13 hours in space, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One made a controlled re-entry on Earth over open water in the South Pacific at […]

Posted January 19, 2024

NASA Headquarters

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Johnson Space Center

NASA to Join Astrobotic’s Media Call on Peregrine Mission One Status

NASA will join an Astrobotic media teleconference at 12 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 18, to discuss updates on their Peregrine Mission One, which is carrying science for the agency as part of its Commercial Lunar Provider Services (CLPS) initiative. The audio-only teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.

Posted January 13, 2024