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 is scheduled to launch its payload as soon as this week.
Intuitive Machines and SpaceX plan to launch the IM-1 lunar lander mission as soon as 2024-02-14, pending a fueling test on the pad.
Intuitive Machines and SpaceX are coordinating a multi-day launch window for the IM-1 mission that opens no earlier than 12:57 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on 2024-02-14 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Intuitive Machines is targeting the IM-1 launch in a multi-day window that opens 2024-02-14.
NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a CLPS task order for the IM-1 mission in 2019 that is worth, after modifications, $118,000,000.
In May 2019, NASA awarded a task order to Intuitive Machines for a delivery under the CLPS initiative.
Intuitive Machines is planning up to three lunar landings, with the first mission IM-1 scheduled to launch in February 2024.
Intuitive Machines is planning up to three lunar landings, with the first mission, IM-1, scheduled to launch in February.
Peter McGrath serves as Vice President of Business Development for Intuitive Machines and is responsible for expanding future business opportunities.
Peter McGrath assumed the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Intuitive Machines effective 2024-01-02.
Erik Sallee is departing as Chief Financial Officer of Intuitive Machines effective 2024-01-26.
Prior to joining Intuitive Machines, Peter McGrath worked at Boeing as Director of the Global Sales and Marketing organization in the Space Exploration Business Unit.
Intuitive Machines delivered the IM-1 mission Nova-C lunar lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida earlier 2024-01.
Intuitive Machines targets the IM-1 lunar mission launch window to open no earlier than mid-February 2024 in coordination with SpaceX.
Intuitive Machines delivered the IM-1 mission Nova-C lunar lander to Cape Canaveral, Florida earlier 2023-12.
On 2023-12-19, Intuitive Machines delayed the launch of its IM-1 lunar lander mission by about one month to a mid-February launch window.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lander was shipped to Florida earlier in the month and has completed various pre-launch processing milestones.
Intuitive Machines had been planning to launch IM-1 between 2023-01-12 and 2023-01-16 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.
Both Astrobotic’s Peregrine and Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 are carrying commercial payloads and payloads provided by NASA through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program under awards made in 2019.
On 2023-10-27, Intuitive Machines moved the IM-1 launch to a window that opened 2023-01-12 citing pad congestion as a factor.