CLPS Landing Sites

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. The CLPS model aims to enable new avenues of completing high-value/high–priority scientific investigations and exploration while expanding the lunar economy and build a marketplace on the Moon. The first payloads heading to the Moon through CLPS are being launched ahead of crewed missions to help NASA better understand how to operate in the lunar environment before landing the next generation of explorers.