July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... model for space exploration. Some of these initiatives include NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, which allows rapid acquisition of lunar payload delivery services; the recent contract to SpaceX for the development of the...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... even further from Earth, NASA announced its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme in 2009, followed nine years later by its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme. Both initiatives charged private companies with...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
... performing several experiments. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky’ is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and sets the tone for the future of exploration across cislunar space as the first...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... is not completely dead in the water however, and a recent request for information (RFI) on its new Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program suggests NASA is changing its strategy to achieve the same goals, I.e. the agency still wants...
