Intuitive Machines is an American space exploration company that provides lunar surface access, payload delivery, and data transmission services. As a NASA CLPS partner, they design and build lunar landers like Nova-C to transport payloads to the Moon. Their customers include NASA, for whom they deliver science instruments and technology demonstrations as part of the Artemis program, and they are developing lunar data relay satellites. Intuitive Machines aims to commercialize the Moon through infrastructure and services.
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Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission carried six NASA payloads and a commercial telescope named ILO-X.
Intuitive Machines' lander will also test Nokia’s 4G/LTE network on the Moon.
Intuitive Machines' IM-1 lander experienced a hard landing on the Moon but was later deemed successful by NASA.
Intuitive Machines' third Moon landing is planned for 2026 at Reiner Gamma to study its composition and magnetic fields.
Intuitive Machines' second Moon mission will deploy Lunar Outpost’s MAPP rover to collect lunar soil.
Dr. Mohammed Al Aseeri, CEO of the Bahrain Space Agency, participated in a high-level symposium on lunar technologies hosted by Intuitive Machines.
NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a $4.8 billion contract under the Artemis program.
KASA plans to send a lunar environment monitoring payload through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program aboard Intuitive Machines’ third Moon lander for about $5 million.
The first version of SCALPSS flew on Intuitive Machines’ first CLPS lander but could not operate because that spacecraft experienced an anomalously hard landing.
Intuitive Machines’ second CLPS lander, Athena (IM-2), landed near 85°S on March 6, 2024, and came to rest on its side inside a shadowed crater.
Intuitive Machines had two landers land on the Moon, but both ended up on their sides following the missions.
AstroForge's Odin spacecraft was intended to fly as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar lander.
Intuitive Machines' Athena lander reached the surface of the Moon on the IM-2 mission in March 2025.
Intuitive Machines' second CLPS lander Athena (IM-2) landed near the Moon's south pole around 85°S on March 6 and came to rest on its side inside a cold crater.
Intuitive Machines' publicly traded shares fell by nearly 40% at the end of the week following IM-2's failure.
Intuitive Machines received $10 million for work on a commercial orbital return vehicle.
The next private lunar lander mission, IM-2 by Intuitive Machines, is expected to land on March 6, 2025.
Over the past two years, U.S. lunar surface mission attempts included one failure by Astrobotic Peregrine, one partial success by Intuitive Machines IM-1, and one successful landing by Firefly Blue Ghost.
Athena’s payloads include a NASA-funded drill and spectrometer, a rover from Lunar Outpost, a rover from Japan-based Dymon, a NASA-funded hopper from Intuitive Machines, and a retroreflector.
Intuitive Machines' IM-2 is scheduled to land on March 9, 2023, at 11:32 am Central time.