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Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, NASA is working with American companies to deliver scientific, exploration, and technology payloads to the Moon’s surface and orbit.
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About CLPS
The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative allows rapid acquisition of lunar delivery services from commercial vendors to send NASA science and technology payloads, enabling industry growth and supporting long-term lunar exploration. The CLPS model offers a unique opportunity to test and refine technologies and integrate systems that will provide insight for future crewed missions to Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.
Exploring the Moon through CLPS.
As NASA prepares to send humans back to the Moon, we are sending science and technology instruments ahead of time to lay the foundation for a long-term human presence. Through NASA’s CLPS initiative, we are enabling American companies to send our science experiments and technologies to the lunar surface for us. This unique commercial delivery service is poised to change the way we work and perform science at the Moon, greatly expanding our capabilities for exploration.
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NASA currently has a pool of 13 eligible American companies on contract under CLPS.
To date, NASA has awarded 11 lunar deliveries to five CLPS vendors to carry more than 50 payloads to the Moon. CLPS contracts are indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts with a combined maximum contract value of $2.6 billion through November 2028. Individual CLPS contract awards cover end-to-end commercial payload delivery services, including payload integration, mission operations, launch from Earth, and landing on the surface of the Moon.
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Landing on the Moon is hard.
With any new endeavor there is a new level of risk. With CLPS, NASA has accepted the risk that going through this innovative approach with commercial companies, that there could be some failures. Even with a few risks, CLPS remains an affordable and beneficial approach to lunar exploration. And with every failure comes lessons learned that will improve future missions to come.
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Latest CLPS News
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As NASA partners with American industry to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon, a dedicated team behind the…
Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 29, 2025, to correct the amount of data collected during Intuitive Machines’…
After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded…
NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, from NASA’s Johnson Space…
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of the agency’s Johnson Space…
Contacts
Media Contacts
Nilufar Ramji
Public Affairs | Johnson Space Center
nilufar.ramji@nasa.gov
Karen Fox
Public Affairs | NASA Headquarters
Program Contacts
Adam Schlesinger
CLPS Lead | Johnson Space Center
Regina Blue
CLPS Programmatic Deputy | Johnson Space Center
Ryan Stephan
CLPS Technical Deputy | Glenn Research Center
