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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to INTUITIVE MACHINES, LLC

aerospaceactive
WORK BEGAN2026-03-25·LATEST ACTION2026-05-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80JSC026F7009_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000
Award description

CLPS TASK ORDER CT-4 PAYLOADS AND RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON.

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

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

Funds payloads and research investigations for lunar surface operations under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

Sub-sectors
nasa-lunar-missionsclps-programmoon-surface-research
Why this matters

CLPS is critical to NASA's Artemis program, establishing commercial lunar logistics infrastructure for sustained human exploration and science.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for specialized lunar landers, scientific instruments, and payload integration services from aerospace suppliers.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. lunar surface access capability directly counters China's advancing lunar exploration program and resource assessment efforts.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002153.

Period of performance
Start
2026-03-25
End
2031-05-31
Status
activein 1839 days
Sources

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