Route: partner¶
Payloads from international partner agencies, delivered under a NASA task order.
These payloads reached CLPS landers through agreements between NASA and partner agencies, not through NASA payload calls: ESA (MPAc, Lunar Pathfinder, PROSPECT), Korea's KASI (LUSEM, LVRaD), the CSA (its lunar rover) and the University of Bern (LIMS, funded through ESA's PRODEX programme). NASA named each one in the release for the CLPS task order that carries it. The only calls found are for the CSA rover: the CSA's 2021 tender for its Phase A, and NASA's 2021 notice for its US instrument (which became LAFORGE); the CSA ended the rover mission in 2026, and the agreement behind LIMS is not public.
Calls and selections¶
CSA¶
- 29 April 2021, call: Community Announcement: NASA-funded Scientific Payload for the Canadian Space Agency Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP) Phase A Lunar Rover to be Delivered by CLPS (NNH21ZDA013L)
- 1 June 2021, call: LEAP - Lunar Rover Phase A (9F052-200303/B)
- 14 November 2022, other: First Canadian rover to set wheels on the Moon (CSA news release: contract to Canadensys)
- 2 December 2022, other: Johns Hopkins APL to Build Science Instrument for First Canadian Lunar Rover (go-ahead for NASA's LAFORGE instrument)
- 21 April 2026, other: First Canadian rover to explore the Moon (CSA project page: project ended)
CSA and University of Bern¶
- 29 July 2025, award: NASA Selects Firefly for New Artemis Science, Tech Delivery to Moon (25-046)
ESA¶
- October 2019, other: A pathway for communicating at the Moon (ESA news: ESA–NASA joint statement supporting Lunar Pathfinder)
- 13 April 2022, other: Redirecting ESA programmes in response to geopolitical crisis (ESA press release: PROSPECT moves from Luna-27 to a CLPS flight) (N° 16–2022)
- 15 June 2022, other: NASA, ESA Finalize Agreements on Climate, Artemis Cooperation (memorandum of understanding on Lunar Pathfinder) (22-060)
- March 2023, other: Firefly to take Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon (ESA news)
- 14 March 2023, award: NASA Picks Firefly Aerospace for Robotic Delivery to Far Side of Moon (23-026)
- 29 August 2024, award: NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery (24-110)
- Program page: CS-3/4 Science
- Program page: CLPS CP-22 Science
- Other: MPAc: measuring the Moon with lasers (ESA page)
ESA and KASI¶
- 17 November 2021, award: NASA Selects Intuitive Machines for New Lunar Science Delivery (21-157)
- Program page: CP-11 Science
KASI (Korea)¶
- 17 November 2021, other: Korean-made Lunar Space Environment Monitor (LUSEM) to be Installed on NASA’s Unmanned Lunar Lander Scheduled for Launch in 2024 (Korean science ministry and KASI press release)
- 27 March 2026, award: NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver Artemis Science, Tech to Moon
- 17 August 2026, other: 국내 개발 ‘달 표면 우주방사선 측정기’, 미국 항공우주청(NASA) 달 착륙선 탑재를 위한 이행약정 체결 (KASA press release, in Korean: implementation agreement with NASA to fly the Korean-built lunar surface radiation dosimeter on a NASA lander)
- Other: DALO – Discovery Across Lunar Observations: CLPS Mission (KASI's page for its CLPS payloads)
University of Bern (Switzerland)¶
- 9 November 2023, other: Instrument from the University of Bern flies to the Moon
- Program page: CS-6 Science
Payloads¶
7 payloads on 5 missions in the records so far.
IM-3¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Trinity · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 2¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost with the Elytra orbiter · manifested
IM-4¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 4¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost with the Elytra orbiter · manifested
- Laser Ablation Ionization Mass Spectrometer (LIMS); NASA's July 2025 release calls it the Laser Ionization Mass Spectrometer
- CSA rover (Canadian Space Agency Lunar Rover Mission, LRM), with NASA's LAFORGE thermal imaging radiometer
IM-5¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-D · manifested