{"id":570971,"date":"2026-08-16T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570971\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:52:10","slug":"nasa-plans-three-more-2026-lunar-task-orders-including-an-orbiter-to-follow-lro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570971\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA plans three more 2026 lunar task orders, including an orbiter to follow LRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s June Moon Base update said it would solicit proposals for additional lunar deliveries, including a South Pole optical imager, another science manifest and a power-and-avionics demonstration. The agency separately described further CLPS 1.0 and CLPS 2.0 competitions but did not publish an orbiter task-order specification. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-awards-more-moon-base-science-previews-new-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expected timing comes from Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus, who said the orbiter surveyor opportunity could appear \u201ca little bit later this summer, maybe early fall.\u201d He said Intuitive Machines expects to compete as a prime contractor, supplying the spacecraft bus and imagers while integrating communications, data processing and mapping products. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/lunar-orbiter-among-upcoming-nasa-clps-task-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s June Moon Base update said it would solicit proposals for additional lunar deliveries, including a South Pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-570971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}