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deliver to Schrödinger Basin three experiments to collect seismic data, measure the heat flow and electrical conductivity of the lunar subsurface and measure electromagnetic phenomena created by the interaction of the solar wind and plasma with the lunar surface. This mission would be the first CLPS mission to target the lunar far side, and aims to be the second landing (after China's
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The Draft Request for Proposal's covering letter states that the contracts will last up to 10 years. As NASA's need to send payloads to the lunar surface (and other cislunar destinations) arises, it will issue Firm-Fixed Price 'task orders' on which the approved prime contractors can bid. A Scope Of
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rover was cancelled in April 2018, NASA officials explained that lunar surface exploration would continue in the future, but using commercial lander services under a new CLPS program. Later that April, NASA announced the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program as the first step in the solicitation
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The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) investigation is a suite of five instruments, two of which will be mounted on a stationary lander and three mounted on a mobile rover to be provided as a service by the CLPS vendor. Lunar-VISE will study a rare form of lunar volcanism.
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establishes contracts for the CLPS program and selects lunar science instruments that will use CLPS services. The CLPS Lunar Instrument Development process includes NASA Provided Lunar Payloads (NPLP), Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads (LSITP), Payloads and Research Investigations on
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The CLPS contracts for landers and lander missions do not include the payloads themselves. The payloads are developed under separate contracts either at NASA facilities or in commercial facilities. The CLPS landers provide landing, support services, and sample return as specified in each individual
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The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, which will characterize the structure and composition of the Moon's mantle by studying electric and magnetic fields. Southwest Research Institute. Currently part of the Lunar Interior Temperature and Materials Suite planned for launch in 2024. Planned for flight
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The Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA) science suite, is a small CubeSat-based device. LEIA will provide biological research on the Moon – which cannot be simulated or replicated with high fidelity on the Earth or International Space Station – by delivering the yeast
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On July 21, 2022, NASA announced that it had awarded a CLPS contract (8th, not counting OrbitBeyond) worth $ 73 million to a team led by the company Draper. The mission targeted Schrödinger Basin on the farside of the Moon, planned for 2025. The mission lander, called SERIES-2 by Draper, would
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Lunar Interior Temperature and Materials Suite (LITMS): two instruments, the Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity pneumatic drill and the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, previously selected in the second batch and slated for delivery to Schrödinger Basin. Will
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along with the Human Exploration and Operations and Space Technology Mission directorates. NASA expects the contractors to provide all activities necessary to safely integrate, accommodate, transport, and operate NASA payloads, including launch vehicles, lunar lander spacecraft, lunar surface
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The first batch of science payloads are being developed in NASA facilities, due to the short time available before the first planned flights. Subsequent selections include payloads provided by universities and industry. Calls for payloads are planned to be released each year for additional
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The next (seventh, not counting the OrbitBeyond contract) CLPS contract was awarded by NASA on November 17, 2021 to Intuitive Machines, their 3rd award. Their Nova-C lander was contracted to land four NASA payloads (about 92 kg in total) to study a lunar feature called
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The Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER), an instrument designed to measure heat flow from the interior of the Moon. Texas Tech University. Currently part of the Lunar Interior Temperature and Materials Suite planned for launch in
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its second CLPS contract. The mission would be the first flight of Astrobotic's larger Griffin lander. Griffin weighs 450 kg. The award was for $ 199.5 million which covers Griffin lander and launch costs. The mission was scheduled for November 2024.
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for a mission to deliver and operate eight payloads – with nine science and technology instruments – to the Moon's South Pole in 2022. Masten Space Systems filed for bankruptcy in July 2022; this led to the cancellation of Masten's CLPS mission.
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the Surface of the Moon (PRISM), Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI), Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Instruments and Artemis Surface Instruments. LDEP aspires to conduct at least two CLPS missions per year.
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In February 2018, NASA issued a solicitation for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that may become CLPS customers. Proposals were due by November 2018 and January 17, 2019. NASA makes annual calls for proposals.
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The first twelve NASA payloads and experiments were announced on February 21, 2019, and will fly on separate missions. As of February 2021 NASA has awarded contracts for four CLPS lander missions to support these payloads.
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for many years. A variety of exploration, science, and technology objectives that could be addressed by regularly sending instruments, experiments and other small payloads to the Moon have been identified by NASA.
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Eight missions have been contracted under the program (not counting one mission contract that was revoked after awarding and another mission contract that was cancelled after the contracted company went bankrupt).
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Farside Seismic Suite (FSS): two seismometers, the vertical Very Broadband seismometer and the Short Period sensor, will measure seismic activity on the far side of the Moon at Schrödinger Basin. Jet Propulsion
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The companies selected are considered "main contractors" that can sub-contract projects to other companies of their choice. The first companies granted the right to bid on CLPS contracts were chosen in 2018.
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On July 1, 2019, NASA announced the selection of twelve additional payloads, provided by universities and industry. Seven of these are scientific investigations while five are technology demonstrations.
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Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) Payload, which will determine how lunar regolith sticks to a range of materials exposed to the Moon's environment. Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance, LLC.
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In June 2021, NASA announced the selection of three payloads from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals. These payloads will be sent to
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can launch the spacecraft. The mass of the landers and rovers can range from miniature to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb), with a 500 kg (1,100 lb) lander targeted to launch in 2022.
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The DIMPLE payload, short for Dating an Irregular Mare Patch with a Lunar Explorer, will fly on a future CLPS provider's mission. DIMPLE will investigate the Ina irregular mare patch.
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Multiple contracts will be issued, and the early payloads will likely be small because of the limited capacity of the initial commercial landers. The first landers and rovers will be
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to the lunar surface and studying its response to radiation and lunar gravity. Saccharomyces cerevisiae serves as a model organism used to understand DNA damage response and repair.
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NASA is assuming a cost of one million dollars per kilogram delivered to the lunar surface. (This figure may be revised after a lunar landing when the actual costs are available.)
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Neutron Spectrometer System and Advanced Neutron Measurements at the Lunar Surface, are a pair of neutron detectors to quantify the hydrogen –and therefore water near the surface.
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On November 18, 2019, NASA added five new contractors to the group of companies who are eligible to bid to send large payloads to the surface of the Moon with the CLPS program.
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Intended to deliver several hundreds of kilograms of payload to the lunar surface. Masten Space filed for bankruptcy in July 2022, with nearly all of their assets sold to
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for flights to the Moon. In April 2018, CLPS issued a Draft Request for Proposal, and in September 2018 the CLPS Request for Proposal was issued as a formal solicitation.
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PlanetVac, a technology for acquiring and transferring lunar regolith from the surface to other instruments or place it in a container for its potential return to Earth.
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ESA's Package for Resource Observation and in-Situ Prospecting for Exploration, Commercial exploitation, and Transportation (PROSPECT) payload will fly on this mission.
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SAMPLR: Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering, and Probing of Lunar Regolith, a sample acquisition technology that will make use of a robotic arm. Maxar Technologies.
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Lunar Demonstration of a Reconfigurable, Radiation Tolerant Computer System, which will demonstrate a radiation-tolerant computing technology. Montana State University.
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In June 2022, NASA announced the selection of two new payloads from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.
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Next Generation Lunar Retroreflectors (NGLR), which will serve as a target for lasers on Earth to precisely measure the Earth-Moon distance. University of Maryland.
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On November 18, 2019, NASA added five contractors to the group of companies eligible to bid to deliver large payloads to the lunar surface under the CLPS program:
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The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), which will capture images of the interaction of Earth's magnetosphere with solar wind. Boston University.
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On July 29, 2019, NASA announced that it had granted OrbitBeyond's request to be released from this specific contract, citing "internal corporate challenges."
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Lunar Compact InfraRed Imaging System (L-CIRiS), an infrared radiometer to explore the Moon's surface composition and temperature distribution. Built for the
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On March 14, 2023, NASA awarded Firefly a $ 112 million task order (8th CLPS contract, not counting OrbitBeyond or Masten Space Systems) for a mission to the
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Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies is a set of cameras for monitoring the interaction between the lander engine plume and the lunar surface.
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On August 29, 2024 NASA announced that it awarded another CLPS task order to Intuitive Machines. The six payloads include four from NASA, one from the
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On April 8, 2020, NASA announced it had awarded the fourth (after Astrobotic's, Intuitive Machines' and OrbitBeyond's awards) CLPS contract for
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Low-frequency Radio Observations from the Near Side Lunar Surface, a radio experiment to measure photoelectron sheath density near the surface.
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Heimdall, a camera system with flight heritage on MSL, OSIRIS-REx and GOSAT-2, including four CMOS cameras and a DVR. Designed and built by
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The competitive nature of the CLPS program is expected to reduce the cost of lunar exploration, accelerate a robotic return to the Moon,
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A set of three instruments to collect data during entry, descent and landing on the lunar surface to help develop future crewed landers.
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Orbit Beyond returned their task order (cancelling their mission) two months after award in 2019. That mission is not listed below.
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Work will be issued with each task order. The CLPS proposals are being evaluated against five Technical Accessibility Standards.
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Surface and Exosphere Alterations by Landers, another landing monitor to study the effects of spacecraft on the lunar exosphere.
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their second CLPS contract for Intuitive Machines Mission 2 (IM-2). The contract was worth approximately $ 47 million. Using a
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On November 29, 2018, NASA announced the first nine companies that would be allowed to bid on contracts, which were
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Lunar Node 1 Navigation Demonstrator, a navigation beacon for providing geolocation for orbiters and landing craft.
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for a mission to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023.
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inside craters, near constant solar power at the crater rims, and abundant metals and oxygen in the regolith.
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The lunar swirl known as Reiner Gamma (60 km width), seen at 750 nm by the Clementine spacecraft (July 2011)
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or lunar pits for entrances to Moon caves. The rover would operate mostly autonomously for up to one week.
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Nova-C lander model, on display on May 2019 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
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Gruithuisen Domes: the Gamma and Delta domes are separated by a relatively flat basaltic plain (2021)
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mission in 2024. The program was extended to add support for large payloads starting after 2025.
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Solar Cell Demonstration Platform for Enabling Long-Term Lunar Surface Power, a next-generation
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NASA said Griffin was now expected to be ready for the mission no earlier than September 2025.
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On July 21, 2022, NASA announced that it had awarded a CLPS contract to Draper Laboratories.
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Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing is a velocity and ranging
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Models of the first three commercial landers selected for the program. Left to right:
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On July 1, 2019, a $ 5.6 million contract was awarded to Astrobotic and its partner
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contracts with a combined maximum contract value of $ 2.6 billion over ten years.
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Astrobotic Awarded US$ 5.6 Million NASA Contract to Deliver Autonomous Moon Rover
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NSPIRES – NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System
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Review of the Commercial Aspects of NASA SMD's Lunar Science and Exploration
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Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer, to monitor the lunar surface radiation.
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on hardware such as precision landing/hazard avoidance, power generation (
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program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the
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filed for bankruptcy in July 2022, with nearly all their assets sold to
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on August 15, 2024 – via Universities Space Research Association.
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Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (2019).
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NASA program contracting commercial transportation services to the Moon
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https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=BLUEGHOST
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Lunar Node-1 instrument of IM-1 Odysseus Lunar lander (February 2024)
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lander, designed and developed at the company Cedar Park facility.
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complement data acquired by the FSS. Southwest Research Institute.
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Delivery missions for these payloads were solicited in batches.
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On May 21, 2019, three companies were awarded lander contracts:
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Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer for Lunar Surface Volatiles, is a
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instrument designed to make lunar landings more precise.
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This program requires that only US 7: 7593:International Lunar Research Station 5675: 3763:Chang, Kenneth (February 22, 2024). 2130:Solicitation Number: 80HQTR18R0011R" 2024:from the original on October 8, 2018 434:lander, expected to launch in 2026. 3855:(Press release). February 4, 2021. 3707:Jones, Andrew (February 22, 2024). 3230:Szondy, David (February 22, 2019). 3018:from the original on April 28, 2021 106:, MX-1, MX-2, MX-5, MX-9, SERIES-2 6307:Japanese Lunar Exploration Program 5936:Cape Canaveral Space Force Station 5905:Korea Aerospace Research Institute 5895:Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 4329:National Aeronautics and Space Act 4234:from the original on June 15, 2020 4208:from the original on June 20, 2020 3735:Dunn, Marcia (February 22, 2024). 3688:from the original on March 2, 2024 3565:from the original on June 29, 2021 3325:from the original on June 15, 2021 2752:Foust, Jeff (September 11, 2022). 2686:Foust, Jeff (September 29, 2023). 2647:(Press release). 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Most landing sites are near the 25: 8169:Commercial Lunar Payload Services 5747:Commercial Lunar Payload Services 5283:Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 4837:Commercial Lunar Payload Services 3827:from the original on May 20, 2021 3624:Foust, Jeff (December 19, 2023). 3489:McCrea, Aaron (January 8, 2024). 3256:Hautaluoma, Grey (July 1, 2019). 3162:"Lunar Discovery and Exploration" 3114:from the original on July 9, 2019 2359:Roston, Brittany (July 1, 2019). 1913:Harwood, William (May 31, 2019). 507:autonomous operations and sensing 195:Commercial Lunar Payload Services 35:Commercial Lunar Payload Services 7912:Moon landing conspiracy theories 6162: 6161: 5674: 5663: 5662: 5578:Apollo 15 postal covers incident 5336:Space Flight Operations Facility 4522:Operations and Checkout Building 3940:"NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover" 3515:Foust, Jeff (February 2, 2023). 3449: 3378:. September 2022. Archived from 3335: 3321:(Press release). 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Index

CLPS (NASA)

Peregrine
Astrobotic Technology
Nova-C
Intuitive Machines
OrbitBeyond
Aerospace
Artemis-7
McCandless Lunar Lander
XL-1
Peregrine
Griffin
Nova-C
Blue Ghost
APEX 1.0
NASA
United States
NASA.gov/commercial-lunar-payload-services
NASA
Moon
lunar south pole
lunar resources
in situ resource utilization
Artemis lunar program
fixed-price contracts
IM-1
Science Mission Directorate
lunar resources
Resource Prospector

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