How to follow CLPS Moon mission updates
With a fleet of NASA-supported robotic Moon landers part of the agency’s CLPS program launching throughout this decade, I’ve compiled an exhaustive rundown for you to be up to speed on these novel missions:
I update this page every month or two. Other than referencing everything high-level I can on there, whose more than one hundred links should help you get to places, there’s more you can do to keenly follow all things CLPS:
- Check the new NASA CLPS sub-site. The agency updated a few pages lately, including adding Principal Investigators for VIPER payloads. At the same time, some already known high-level information from elsewhere on nasa.gov is missing there! Some of that can be found on nasa.gov’s CLPS page, which is different from the sub-site mentioned above, but hosts other information bits that are outdated.
- Subscribe to blogs of all CLPS vendors in an RSS reader and also manually check their sites. This is especially useful to find and know about the non-NASA-funded payloads aboard CLPS landers. If NASA wants to highlight progress on the “commercial” part of CLPS, listing non-NASA payloads on the official CLPS pages would be great.
- NASA hasn’t posted on the official CLPS blog for more than a year but has been putting out a few CLPS updates on the Artemis blog. And yet the CLPS blog is the one currently linked on official CLPS pages. It’s quite confusing.
- Since information about CLPS wouldn’t necessarily be restricted to these direct sources, use a feature similar to Keyword Monitoring within your RSS reader to create a feed of posts that match CLPS-specific search terms across all your added sources.
- Browse my dedicated CLPS coverage page and search the Moon Monday archive.
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