NASA Plans to Award CLPS2 Contract on November 7, Without Confirming Voyager as Winner
Key Facts
NASA’s procurement page lists November 7, 2026, as the planned date to award and start the Commercial Lunar Payload Services CLPS2 contract. The schedule sets a planned date but does not show a completed field for the actual award date. The page therefore does not confirm that Voyager Technologies won the contract or joined the pool of companies eligible to compete for it. The date matters because it identifies the next contractual step for a program designed to deliver scientific and technical payloads to the Moon. NASA updated the planned date on October 6, 2026.
NASA says the CLPS initiative lets it purchase lunar delivery services from commercial providers to send scientific and technical payloads. The agency also says the initiative aims to enable industry growth and support long-term lunar exploration. This framework makes the program a set of delivery opportunities competed for by companies, rather than a single contract whose full value goes to one company. NASA says current CLPS contracts cover 17 lunar delivery missions awarded to five providers. Those missions are set to carry more than 60 payloads to the Moon.
The combined maximum value of current CLPS contracts is $2.6 billion through November 2028, NASA says. That figure describes an overall ceiling for existing contracts; it does not set the revenue of any individual company or the value of future task orders. Details of the CLPS2 ceiling or extension terms attributed to Voyager have not been confirmed in publicly available official sources. The $10 billion figure cited in earlier reports should therefore not be treated as a confirmed value for the company or guaranteed revenue. Any provider’s commercial impact depends on the actual missions it wins under the program.
Against the backdrop of Voyager’s lunar activity, the company said in its third-quarter results announcement that it had received a $298 million NASA task order through Astrobotic. It also said acceptance testing for the Griffin-1 mission was complete, ahead of a targeted launch in late 2026. This task order concerns activity separate from confirmation of the CLPS2 award and does not establish that Voyager won the new contract. The company said its separate Peregrine-2 task order, which is separate from CLPS2, is worth about $298 million and includes three NASA-directed payloads. Peregrine-2 is scheduled to launch in 2028 to a site near the Gruithuisen Domes.
Voyager said Griffin Mission One carries 10 payloads, including those from NASA, the European Space Agency and commercial customers, and that its targeted launch date is no earlier than November 2026. This places the mission within the company’s ongoing lunar activity, alongside its Astrobotic task orders, but does not settle the CLPS2 outcome. In trading, Voyager Technologies shares closed at $23.98 on November 6, 2026, according to EL7 data. That is the available closing price for the session; reliable opening, high and low prices are not available in the evidence. The next step specified on NASA’s page remains the planned contract award and start date of November 7, 2026.