Federal lunar spending

$1.1B in CLPS lunar delivery contracts.

What NASA has put on contract to land robotic payloads on the Moon: 9 distinct CLPS task orders, counted once each at their most concrete reported value. SAM-verified where confirmed; every figure links its source.

+ $3.5B — Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC's Blue Moon Mark 2 HLS (human landing system), announced value. Tracked separately — a crewed-lander program, not part of the CLPS delivery total above.

✓ SAM-verified 20 of 21 1 IDIQ ceiling flagged — not spendAs of 2026-06-18

34 records

2026 7 records

Chang'e-7

Second half of 2026

High

Class

Orbiter + lander + rover + hopper

Status

At launch site / prelaunch preparation

Payloads

4

Actors

China National Space Administration, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

Region

Moon's South Pole

Crescent Space Parsec initial lunar network nodes

Operational target 2026

Medium

Class

Lunar communications/navigation spacecraft

Status

Planned

Payloads

1

Actors

Crescent Space, Lockheed Martin

Region

Cislunar / lunar orbit service region

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2

NET late 2026

High

Class

Robotic lander + transfer/orbiter

Status

Planned

Payloads

6

Actors

NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace +5

Region

Lunar far side surface plus lunar orbit

Lunar Pathfinder

NET November 2026 / delivered with Blue Ghost Mission 2

High

Class

Lunar communications relay satellite

Status

In assembly/integration/test

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, Firefly Aerospace, European Space Agency +1

Region

Lunar orbit; services for polar and far-side missions

Moon Base I / Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance

NET fall 2026

High

Class

Robotic lander / technology demo

Status

Planned; environmental testing completed

Payloads

4

Actors

NASA, Blue Origin

Region

Shackleton Connecting Ridge, lunar South Pole

Moon Base II / Astrobotic Griffin Mission One

Late 2026 (Astrobotic) / NET July 2026 (NASA, stale)

High

Class

Robotic lander + rover delivery

Status

Planned; lander unveiled, entering environmental testing (mid-June 2026)

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, Astrobotic, Venturi Astrolab +1

Region

Nobile Crater near lunar South Pole

Moon Base III / Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Trinity

2026 / targeted this year

High

Class

Robotic lander

Status

Planned

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, Intuitive Machines, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory +2

Region

Reiner Gamma lunar swirl

2027 6 records
2028 10 records

Artemis IV

Early 2028

High

Class

Crewed lunar surface mission

Status

Planned

Payloads

3

Actors

NASA, European Space Agency, Lockheed Martin +2

Region

Lunar surface, South Pole region TBD

Artemis V

Late 2028 / schedule subject to Artemis IV readiness

Medium

Class

Crewed lunar surface mission

Status

Planned

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, European Space Agency, Lockheed Martin +3

Region

Lunar surface, South Pole region TBD

Astrolab FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform / CLV-1 LTV deployment

Deployed to surface by 2028

Medium

Class

Crewed-capable lunar rover / LTV

Status

Planned / delivery task order

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, Blue Origin, Venturi Astrolab

Region

Lunar surface / South Pole region

Chandrayaan-5 / LUPEX

No earlier than 2028

High

Class

Robotic lander + rover

Status

Approved / technical interface work underway

Payloads

12

Actors

NASA, European Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organisation +2

Region

Lunar South Pole near permanently shadowed regions

ESA Moonlight LCNS

Initial operations by end of 2028; full operations by 2030

Medium

Class

Lunar communications/navigation constellation

Status

Contracted / deploying

Payloads

1

Actors

European Space Agency, Telespazio-led Moonlight consortium, Thales Alenia Space

Region

Lunar elliptical orbits supporting polar/surface users

Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 3

2028

Medium

Class

Robotic lander

Status

Planned

Payloads

1

Actors

NASA, Firefly Aerospace

Region

Gruithuisen Domes

Luna-26

2028 / delayed from earlier Russian schedule

Low

Class

Lunar orbiter

Status

Schedule uncertain / delayed

Payloads

1

Actors

Roscosmos

Region

Lunar orbit

Lunar Outpost Pegasus LTV deployment

Deployed to surface by 2028

Medium

Class

Crewed-capable lunar rover / LTV

Status

Planned / delivery task order

Payloads

2

Actors

NASA, Blue Origin, Lunar Outpost +1

Region

Lunar surface / South Pole region

MoonFall drones

By 2028

High

Class

Robotic aerial surface scouts

Status

Planned

Payloads

3

Actors

NASA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace

Region

Near lunar South Pole

NASA Artemis site-agnostic payload cluster

No earlier than 2028; mission assignment TBD

Medium

Class

Payload selection awaiting delivery assignment

Status

Selected, not yet assigned to a specific mission

Payloads

3

Actors

NASA

Region

TBD / site-agnostic lunar surface

2029 4 records
2030 3 records
2031 1 records
2032 1 records
2033 1 records
2035 1 records