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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The United States plans additional Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions in 2024.
Intuitive Machines plans to launch its IM-1 mission on a Falcon 9 later 2023 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
Intuitive Machines plans to launch its IM-1 lander on a Falcon 9 later 2023 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
A second Commercial Lunar Payload Services award to Firefly will deploy a spacecraft in lunar orbit and land on the far side of the moon in 2026.
IM-1 is carrying payloads for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program under a task order awarded in May 2019.
ispace’s U.S. subsidiary is developing a larger Series 2 lander for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission led by Draper scheduled for 2025.
Frontier Aerospace Corporation recently delivered flight thrusters supporting the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program.
Firefly’s second lunar mission task order was awarded under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and utilizes the Blue Ghost spacecraft.
NASA awarded a $112,000,000 task order through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to Firefly Aerospace on 2023-03-14 for a 2026 mission using the Blue Ghost lander.
The first Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions by Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are scheduled to launch in 2023 carrying NASA payloads to the surface of the Moon.
The IM-3 mission is funded through commercial customers and Intuitive Machines’ third awarded task order from NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
AAC Clyde Space delivered power systems to Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 and IM-2 missions, both part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
Peregrine is carrying payloads from NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative that was awarded in 2019.
Peregrine is carrying payloads awarded through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative from the 2019 awards.
SSTL’s Lunar Pathfinder will serve as a telecommunications relay satellite for lunar missions with ESA as a core customer and NASA as a user in exchange for NASA delivering Lunar Pathfinder to lunar orbit through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
During James Bridenstine’s tenure as NASA Administrator, NASA established the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program to partner with private enterprise for lunar surface payloads.
ispace’s U.S. office is part of a Draper-led team that won a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award in July for a lander mission to the far side of the moon scheduled for launch in 2025.
NASA unveiled the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program in 2018 to fly science and technology demonstration payloads on commercial lunar landers.
LunaGrid plans to provide power to NASA’s Artemis program, decadal-class science missions, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions, international space agency missions, and commercial businesses.
Swedish Space Corporation has been selected to provide advanced ground station support by four of the five Commercial Lunar Payload Services primes that have won missions to the Moon.