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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NASA selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab on 2024-04-03 for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract.
Intuitive Machines put the lunar lander Odysseus into a dormant mode to allow for a possible wake-up when sunlight returns.
Intuitive Machines named its lunar lander 'Odysseus' after the ancient Greek hero.
Intuitive Machines began listening for transmissions from Odysseus on Wednesday, following its calculations of solar power generation.
Steve Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, stated that the company estimated it would earn 95% of the payments eligible under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order from NASA.
Intuitive Machines reported an operating loss of $56,200,000 in 2023 on $75,500,000 in revenue.
Intuitive Machines plans to continue listening for signals from IM-1 after lunar night following solar illumination of the lander’s panels beginning around 2024-03-20.
Intuitive Machines reported $75,500,000 in revenue in 2023, down from $85,900,000 in 2022.
Intuitive Machines expects to receive 95% of award payments under its CLPS task order for the IM-1 landing, holding back 5% because one payload did not return data.
Intuitive Machines had an operating loss of $5,500,000 in 2022.
Intuitive Machines submitted a proposal to NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle program offering a rover delivered to the moon on the company’s Nova-D lander.
Intuitive Machines ended 2023 with a cash balance of $4,500,000 that grew to $54,600,000 by 2024-03-01.
Intuitive Machines began generating revenue from the OMES III engineering support contract with NASA it won in 2023.
Intuitive Machines recognized $12,500,000 in revenue from one month of work on the OMES III contract in 2023.
Intuitive Machines successfully landed its lunar lander, Odysseus, on the Moon on February 22, 2023, as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Intuitive Machines completed science and data transmission for all NASA and commercial payloads onboard Odysseus after the soft landing on the Moon on 2024-02-22.
The Independence payload developed by Lonestar Data Holdings was delivered on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 Odysseus Nova-C lander mission.
Lonestar Data Holdings has a second commercial mission contracted with Intuitive Machines on the IM-2 mission scheduled for later 2024.
Aitech provided a complete avionics computer system to Intuitive Machines for the IM-1 mission that successfully landed on the Moon on 2024-02-22.
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program provided Intuitive Machines with a $118,000,000 task order for the IM-1 mission.