NASA picks eight companies for CLPS 2 cargo landers and Blue Origin for the PROMISE rover under its Moon Base Program

7 November 2026

NASA has announced a set of awards for transportation, technology and science work under its Moon Base Program. The second round of cargo lander deliveries, called CLPS 2, goes to eight firms under a combined ceiling of 10 billion dollars across ten years. Those chosen are Firefly Aerospace and Blue Origin; Lockheed Martin Space and Intuitive Machines; Voyager Technologies and ispace-U.S.; and Northrop Grumman Space Systems along with SpaceX. The ceiling on the earlier CLPS 1.0 contracts rises from 2.6 billion dollars to 4.2 billion dollars. Blue Origin will deliver the PROMISE rover on a 94 million dollar base contract, with an option period worth 140 million dollars; the rover itself will be managed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech. SpaceX takes the Cislunar Communications Deployment Demonstration. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency is building the Moon Base mission by mission.