The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is a NASA initiative that contracts with commercial companies to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar surface. These companies are responsible for end-to-end services, including payload integration, launch, landing, and operation on the Moon. CLPS aims to enable rapid, frequent, and affordable lunar access, supporting NASA's Artemis program by testing technologies, performing experiments, scouting for lunar resources, and demonstrating capabilities for future human missions. Key partners include Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Firefly Aerospace.
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Astrobotic plans to provide LunaGrid power service to NASA’s Artemis program, decadal-class science missions, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions, international space agency missions, and commercial businesses.
Intuitive Machines’ first NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission, IM-1, is scheduled to launch in early 2023.
At the auction, Intuitive Machines offered $2,725,000 for a SpaceX launch credit that is valued at $14,000,000 and limited to companies holding NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts.
Team Draper was awarded $73,000,000 to deliver payloads including two communication relay satellites to lunar orbit and a suite of scientific experiments to the lunar surface under NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order CP-12.
Draper received a $73,000,000 contract from NASA to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
The joint Relativity-Impulse lander is intended to carry payloads for government and commercial customers and to provide services similar to those offered by companies developing lunar landers under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Griffin will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and deliver VIPER to the lunar surface in late 2023 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) under the Artemis program.
Firefly Aerospace is developing the Blue Ghost lunar lander to fly a mission for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program in 2024.
A second Lunar Outpost MAPP rover will launch on another Intuitive Machines lander in 2024 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program will deliver the first radio astronomy instrument to the Moon later 2022.
NASA’s seven Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards announced to date cover missions scheduled for launch through 2024.
NASA awarded Astrobotic Technology a $199,500,000 task order under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar south pole on the Griffin lander.
Griffin will deliver VIPER to the lunar surface in late 2023 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services under the Artemis program.
The Series 2 lander is being designed and built in the United States to compete for contracts under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Firefly Aerospace won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services award for a lunar lander mission scheduled for 2023.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines and its Nova-C lander for the 2024 mission, the seventh mission in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Firefly completed the critical design review for the Blue Ghost lunar lander that will fly in 2023 on a mission for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is part of a team led by Draper that was selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program.
NASA awarded Masten Space Systems a $75,900,000 contract in April 2020 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to transport scientific research payloads to the lunar South Pole.
VIPER is scheduled to arrive at the Moon in late 2023 delivered by Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander on a mission arranged through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.