NASA invites private partners to bid for Lunar payload launches before manned mission

NASA has issued ar request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid for opportunity to launch a future payload to 'Moon'. This anuncement came after latest advancement of its Artemis lunar efforts. In this request, NASA has asked its private partners to fly 10 NASA science investigations and techlogy demonstrations to a n-polar region of Moon in 2022. 

se 14 CLPS private ncies are owned by NASA which are used for various missions. reason behind using se companies is that NASA can launch its missions quickly without having to develop techlogy and systems itself. All NASA has to do is pay a private company that already has techlogy and system ncy requires for its mission.

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Requests issued to 14 CLPS for NASA Moon mission 

This time around, ncy has reached out to all its 14 ncies for  NASA Moon mission. As per sources, one CLPS partner will be picked by NASA to launch all of its 10 payloads to Moon. se 10 payloads include a variety of techlogy and science efforts which will help NASA to learn many facts about Moon so that it can prepare for its future manned lunar missions and potential long-term habitation. 

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NASA on September 8, Tuesday, detailed each of se payloads which will be used for NASA Moon mission. 10 payloads include things like Lunar GNSS receiver Experiment, MAVEN, RadPC, Regolith Adherence Characterization, and much more. upcoming NASA Moon mission will help in investigating things like how Moon's dust sticks to different types of materials, how does heat flow from Moon's interior, GPS-related techlogies, an electric field that'll work as a 'dust shield' and much more.

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ncy informed that anuncement of selected CLPS partner who will launch payload for NASA Moon mission will be done sometimes later in this year. This will be 6th surface task award which NASA will dish under its Artemis program. This program aims to return astronauts to Moon by year 2024. According to NASA this planned launch in 2022 will play a major role in laying ' foundation' for this eventful human mission. 

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