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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In 2024, Intuitive Machines became the first commercial company to land and operate on the lunar surface.
From September 2020 to June 2022, Steven Vontur provided public company readiness and other accounting services at several private companies prior to joining Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines demonstrated the ability to provide delivery, data and analysis, and autonomous operations on the lunar surface in 2024.
Steven Vontur will transition from Interim Chief Financial Officer to Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Intuitive Machines effective 2024-09-16.
In his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Pete McGrath will lead Intuitive Machines’ finance organization and focus on executing the company’s long-term vision and strategy.
Prior to joining Intuitive Machines in August 2020, Pete McGrath worked at Boeing as Director of the Global Sales and Marketing organization in the Space Exploration Business Unit.
NASA awarded a task order valued at $116,900,000 through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to Intuitive Machines on 2024-08-29.
NASA’s contract with Intuitive Machines for this CLPS award includes one European Space Agency-led drill suite among the six science and technology payloads to be delivered to the Moon’s South Pole.
Intuitive Machines is in the final assembly phase of its second lunar mission and is scheduled to deliver the completed lander to the launch facility in late 2024.
Intuitive Machines delivered six NASA payloads to Malapert A in the Moon’s South Pole region in early 2024.
The Intuitive Machines-2 CLPS flight will deliver NASA’s first on-site demonstration of searching for water and other chemical compounds 1.01 m below the lunar surface using a drill and mass spectrometer.
Intuitive Machines will receive $116,900,000 from NASA to deliver six NASA payloads to the lunar South Pole in 2027.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander will deliver six payloads with a combined mass of 79 kg to the south polar region of the Moon in 2027.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a set of payloads to the south polar region of the Moon in 2027.
The task order CP-22 award to Intuitive Machines is the fourth task order the company has received under the CLPS contract, more than any other company on the CLPS contract.
Nokia plans to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon as part of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission, which is scheduled to be delivered to the launch site in 2024.
The Artemis program has seen both failures, such as Astrobotics, and successes, such as Intuitive Machines.
The $30,000,000 feasibility contract tasks Intuitive Machines’ global team with creating a roadmap to develop, deploy, and operate a Lunar Terrain Vehicle using the company’s cargo-class lunar landers.
Intuitive Machines designed, 3D-printed, and tested the IM-2 VR900 engine in-house.
Intuitive Machines is completing a $30,000,000 Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services Feasibility Assessment as the prime contractor.