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$50,000,000

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to BLUE ORIGIN, LLC

aerospaceexpiring · 0d· period of performance ends in 0 daysONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-09-16·LATEST ACTION2026-03-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80JSC025F7071_8000_80JSC020D0010_8000
Award description

COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CS-7

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds Blue Origin to deliver commercial lunar payloads and cargo to the Moon under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

Sub-sectors
clps-lunar-cargocommercial-space-providernasa-logistics
Why this matters

Advances U.S. lunar logistics capability and supports Artemis program goals; sustains U.S. space leadership against Chinese expansion.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains Blue Origin's lunar logistics supply chain and drives upstream demand for propulsion, avionics, and materials suppliers.

U.S.–China competition angle

Part of U.S. effort to maintain sustained lunar presence and commercial space leadership as China expands space operations.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.009424.

Period of performance
Start
2025-09-16
End
2026-06-30
Status
expiring · 0din 0 days
Sources

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