Route: PRISM¶
Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon: NASA's science call for CLPS.
PRISM is the Science Mission Directorate's open, competed call for science payload suites that CLPS landers carry; each call is a ROSES program element with its own NSPIRES page. These payloads came from four calls: ROSES-2020 E.11 (Lunar Vertex), ROSES-2021 F.10 (Lunar-VISE, LEIA), ROSES-2022 F.10 (DIMPLE) and, in the study's reading, ROSES-2025 F.10 (LEMS-SP, GIMLI, DISCO), since NASA's 2026 release names no call. NASA then bought each delivery as a separate CLPS task order: CP-11 for Lunar Vertex, CP-22 for LEIA and CP-21 for Lunar-VISE; none is announced yet for DIMPLE or the 2026 selections.
Calls and selections¶
- Program page: Lunar Instrument Development
2021 selection: ROSES-2020 E.11¶
- 5 November 2020, call: E.11 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (NNH20ZDA001N-PRISM)
- 10 June 2021, selection: NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries (21-078)
- 22 June 2021, selection: Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM): Abstracts of selected proposals (NNH20ZDA001N-PRISM20)
- 17 November 2021, award: NASA Selects Intuitive Machines for New Lunar Science Delivery (21-157)
2022 selections: ROSES-2021 F.10¶
- 2 September 2021, call: F.10 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (NNH21ZDA001N-PRISM)
- 2 June 2022, selection: NASA Selects New Instruments for Priority Artemis Science on Moon (22-052)
- 9 June 2022, selection: Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon: Abstracts of selected proposals (NNH21ZDA001N-PRISM)
- 29 August 2024, award: NASA Awards Intuitive Machines Lunar South Pole Research Delivery (24-110)
- 18 December 2024, award: More NASA Science, Tech will Fly to Moon Aboard Future Firefly Flight (24-152)
2023 selection: ROSES-2022 F.10¶
- 19 September 2022, call: F.10 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (NNH22ZDA001N-PRISM)
- 14 July 2023, selection: New NASA Artemis Instruments to Study Volcanic Terrain on the Moon (23-077)
- 20 July 2023, selection: Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon: Abstracts of selected proposals (NNH22ZDA001N-PRISM)
2026 selections: ROSES-2025 F.10 (the study's reading)¶
- 30 September 2025, call: F.10 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (NNH25ZDA001N-PRISM)
- 30 September 2026, selection: NASA Adds New Science Investigations for Moon Base (26-080)
Payloads¶
7 payloads on 5 missions in the records so far.
IM-3¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Trinity · manifested
IM-4¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C · manifested
Blue Ghost Mission 3¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost · manifested
CP-32 (not yet awarded)¶
not yet awarded · not yet awarded · manifested
PRISM selections of 30 Sept 2026 (no delivery yet)¶
not yet awarded · not yet awarded · manifested