Category Archives: CLPS

Friday / 15 Jan 2021

Posted on by

NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program Advances Ahead Of USA Return To Moon This Year

CLPS Providers Astrobotic And Intuitive Machines Striving For Q4 Lunar Landings With Peregrine And Nova-C Landers; Emulated Interface Pairing Of NASA Water Detectors MSolo, NSS, And NIRVSS With Peregrine Successful, Instruments To Fly On Both Mission One (2021, Set To Launch On ULA Vulcan Centaur) And Rover Delivery Mission VIPER (2023); Intuitive Machines Delivering 5 NASA / 5 Commercial Payloads During IM-1 (2021) And IM-2 / TRIDENT Drill PRIME-1 (2022), Both Riding On SpaceX Falcon 9, As Is MASTEN XL-1 Lander For Task Order 19-C (2022)

Credits: IM, Astrobotic, Masten

Friday / 13 Nov 2020

Posted on by

Intuitive Machines Leads Missions Intent On Moon Race Long Game

USA Newspace Company Intuitive Machines Set For
Oct 2021 IM-1 Launch; 100-kg Payload Capacity Nova-C Built With US$77M CLPS Award Aims To Reach Vallis Schröteri Carrying 5 NASA Payloads: ROLSES, SCALPSS, LN-1, NDL, LRA; Multiple Independent Payloads: Embry-Riddle To Capture Landing With ‘Eagle Cam’ Deploying Prior To NOVA-C Touchdown; International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA Hawai’i) To Place Precursor Instrument ILO-X, Catch First Light Image Of MWG Center; Spacebit UK Sending 0.5U Micro Rover; IM To Follow With $47M NASA PRIME-1 Suite, 4G Communications Build-out Via ‘Lunar Hopper’ With Nokia In Late 2022

 

Credits: IM