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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SpaceX won a Falcon Heavy contract from Astrobotic in April to launch the Griffin lunar lander carrying NASA’s VIPER rover as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
NASA selected Lockheed Martin to provide payload delivery services to the Moon under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract.
NASA has launches planned to the near side of the Moon in late 2023 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team competing in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program with ispace serving as a subcontractor and design agent to Draper.
ispace is part of a Draper-led team selected by NASA to compete in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
MoonRanger will be delivered to the Moon through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in 2023.
The Commercial Lunar Payload Services program was unveiled by NASA in 2018 to buy payload space on commercially developed robotic lunar landers.
Masten Space Systems won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order for Masten Mission 1 in April 2020 valued at $75,900,000.
Jim Bridenstine established NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program to partner with private companies on lunar rover landings.
SpaceX is launching five of the six Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions awarded by NASA to date.
Firefly was awarded a $93,300,000 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver 10 science payloads to the surface of the Moon in 2023 using the Blue Ghost lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace was awarded a $93,300,000 NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract to deliver 10 science payloads to the surface of the Moon in 2023 using its Blue Ghost lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace is developing a lunar lander called Blue Ghost and won a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in February for Blue Ghost’s first mission to deliver payloads to the moon in 2023.
Intuitive Machines received a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in May 2019 valued at $77,000,000 for a mission originally scheduled for July 2021.
NASA awarded Astrobotic a task order in 2020 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver VIPER to the south pole of the Moon.
Astrobotic was awarded a task order in 2020 from NASA to deliver VIPER to the south pole of the Moon as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
Under Jim Bridenstine’s leadership, NASA established the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program to partner with private enterprise in landing rovers on the lunar surface.
Firefly Aerospace won a $93,300,000 contract from NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program on 2021-02-04 for the 2023 launch of the Blue Ghost lander carrying NASA payloads.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will deliver the ten NASA-sponsored payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 under Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order 19D managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.