Category Archives: CLPS

Tuesday / 22 June 2021

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Spacebit Offers Collaboration Opportunity On Lunar Rover Set For 2021/2022 CLPS Delivery

Partnering With Crowdsourcing Platform Wevolver, Spacebit Engineering Challenge Seeks Design Feedback On Next Iteration Of 1U CubeSat-Based, “Arachnid-Like”, 4-Legged Asagumo Rover; Major Contributors To Have Names Engraved On Rover; Scheduled To Launch On ULA Vulcan Centaur, Land Within Lacus Mortis On Astrobotic Peregrine 2021/2022; Asagumo To Traverse 10-m, Record HD Video, 3D Map Via LIDAR; Explore Potentially Habitable Lava Tubes In Future; Spacebit Also Has Wheeled Rover Booked On Intuitive Machines IM-1 And “Plans To Fly On Every NASA CLPS Delivery On The Market”

Credits: Spacebit, NASA

Friday / 21 May 2021

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Half-Dozen Enterprises To Receive New Lunar Technology Maturation Grants

NASA SBIR / SBTT Awards $750K/EA To 6 Businesses With Moon Focus: Paragon Space Development Corporation Of Tucson AZ (ISRU Collector Of Ice); Lunar Resources Of Houston TX (Molten Regolith Electrolysis Oxygen Capturing, Filtering & Storage System); Advanced Cooling Technologies Of Lancaster PA (Thermal Management System For Lunar Ice Miners); CesiumAstro Of Austin TX (Commercial Communications & Sensing System); Flight Works Of Irvine CA (High Performance Pump-fed Lunar Transfer Stage For Small Launchers); Blueshift Of Broomfield CO (Modeling Rover Interactions With Lunar Regolith In PSRs)

Credits: Paragon, Lunar Resources, ACT, CesiumAstro, Flight Works, Blueshift, NASA

Holiday Weekend Edition
Fri-Mon / 2-5 Apr 2021

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Lunar Commercial Communication Ecosystem Is Major NASA Initiative For Coming Years

Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), Overseer Of NASA Deep Space Network, Near Earth Network And Space Network Is Aiming For Full Commercialization Of Direct To Earth Ground Stations By 2023, Tracking And Data Relay Satellites Commercialization By 2030; Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) To Ride With CLPS Provider Firefly Aerospace On Blue Ghost Lander In 2023 To Investigate Feasibility Of Extending GNSS Signals For PNT From Earth To Cislunar Space; Orbital Relay Constellation Linked To Surface Nodes Governed By Voluntary Interoperability Standard LunaNet To Be Implemented 2024-2028

Credits: NASA

Friday / 15 Jan 2021

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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

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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