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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NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program was allocated $254,000,000 in the 2020-10-01 budget request for robotic lander missions delivering NASA research payloads.
In June 2020, NASA awarded Astrobotic a $199,500,000 contract under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
NASA plans to use Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) unmanned missions to provide logistics support to the moon as part of the effort to reach the moon by 2024.
NASA selected five companies to join the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program on 2019-11-18.
Israel Aerospace Industries signed an agreement with Firefly Aerospace to use the Beresheet lander design as the basis for a lander called Genesis that Firefly is offering as part of its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract.
Finalists for Deal of the Year included SpaceX raising $1,000,000,000+, NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards, OneWeb raising $1,000,000,000+, HawkEye 360’s $70,000,000 Series B, Virgin Galactic’s IPO, Relativity’s $140,000,000 round, the Raytheon-United Technologies merger, and the L3-Harris Corp. merger.
The Artemis 3 mission will focus largely on geological exploration augmented by instruments carried on the lander and instruments pre-deployed on robotic precursor landers through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
ispace is partnered with a Draper-led team that is one of nine companies holding Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts.
ispace is partnered with U.S.-based Draper to offer lunar services to NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Nova-C will carry five payloads under a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order awarded 2019-05-31.
As a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) participant, Astrobotic won a task order in May 2019 to deliver up to 14 NASA payloads to the lunar surface.
NASA launched the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in 2018 and selected nine companies to participate in competitive bids totaling $2,600,000,000 over the next 10 years to carry scientific instruments to the lunar surface.
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program selected Astrobotic to deliver up to 14 NASA payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in 2021.
OrbitBeyond terminated its nearly $100,000,000 contract with NASA for a Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order on 2020-07-29.
Firefly Aerospace is one of nine companies selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to deliver science payloads to the surface of the Moon.
Firefly Aerospace was one of nine companies that received Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards in November 2018.
TeamIndus has a partnership with BeyondOrbit, an Edison, New Jersey–based company that received $97,000,000 from NASA in May as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
The three companies were selected for these task orders from the nine companies that received Commercial Lunar Payload Services awards in November 2018.
Astrobotic was selected by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver 14 payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in July 2021.
ispace is developing commercial lunar landers and is part of a team led by Draper that won one of nine Commercial Lunar Payload Services agreements from NASA last November.