NASA’s CLPS 2.0 procurement expands commercial services beyond intact landings to include impactor delivery, rideshare, orbit insertion, surface mobility, flybys, payload integration, and mission operations. This broader contracting architecture could create a resilient, repeatable lunar supply chain—essential for transporting power, communications, scientific archives, and biological safeguards for the Lunar Ark.[3]
Relevance to the Ark
NASA’s CLPS 2.0 procurement expands commercial services beyond intact landings to include impactor delivery, rideshare, orbit insertion, surface mobility, flybys, payload integration, and mission oper
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