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 planned a landing attempt for Odysseus on 2024-02-22 near the Malapert A crater in the moon’s south polar region.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander Odysseus performed a 408-second burn of its main engine on 2024-02-21 to place the spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Intuitive Machines originally scheduled the 2024-02-22 landing for 5:49 p.m. Eastern and revised the landing time to 5:30 p.m. Eastern on 2024-02-21.
Lonestar Data Holdings selected Intuitive Machines as its partner for the Independence Mission and will continue working with Intuitive Machines for the company's upcoming Freedom Mission.
The Freedom Mission is scheduled to launch on Intuitive Machines' second mission later 2024.
Intuitive Machines postponed the maneuver earlier on 2024-02-16 after finding it took longer than expected to chill the liquid oxygen feed line.
On the evening of 2024-02-18, Intuitive Machines listed the lander as being in excellent health and controllers as planning trajectory correction maneuvers.
Intuitive Machines’ shares closed at $7.32 on 2024-02-16, up nearly 47% from a week earlier.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST on 2024-02-15.
Intuitive Machines launched the Nova-C lander Odysseus toward the moon on 2024-02-15 using a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at 1:05 a.m. Eastern.
Columbia Sportswear plans to work with Intuitive Machines on the company’s second lander mission using the same insulating material and testing a new material.
SpaceX and Intuitive Machines scrubbed an earlier launch attempt originally planned for Wednesday morning before targeting 2024-02-15.
SpaceX targeted 2024-02-15 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX modifications developed to support IM-1 will be used by future Intuitive Machines landers and could also be used by other customers.
SpaceX launched Odysseus, a robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, from a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2024-02-15.
Intuitive Machines completed two wet dress rehearsals of the Odysseus lander on 2024-02-08 and 2024-02-10 while encapsulated atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the launch pad.
Intuitive Machines has two additional Nova-C lunar lander missions in development: IM-2 tentatively planned for the fourth quarter and IM-3 planned for early 2025.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, 2024-02-15 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Intuitive Machines targeted a mission price point of about $100,000,000 for the IM-1 lunar landing attempt.
The ROLSES instrument will launch with Intuitive Machines in February 2024.