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 developing a satellite network to provide communications around the Moon.
The merged Intuitive Machines and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. would have a pro forma enterprise value of $815,000,000.
The merger deal includes $55,000,000 in secured capital separate from the SPAC holdings provided by the SPAC’s sponsor and a founder of Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines estimates $102,000,000 in revenue for 2022.
At the auction, Intuitive Machines offered $2,725,000 for a SpaceX launch credit that is valued at $14,000,000 and limited to companies holding NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts.
Neither Intuitive Machines nor Impulse Space raised their bids at the auction, resulting in Astrobotic winning the auction.
NASA stated in June that it will instead launch Lunar Trailblazer as a secondary payload on the second Intuitive Machines lunar lander mission scheduled for mid-2023.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander is expected to launch in 2023.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lander mission is expected to launch in January 2023 rather than in late 2022 as previously planned.
Intuitive Machines has three lunar lander missions planned that will deliver at least two lunar communication relay satellites by 2025.
Nova-D, Intuitive Machines’ next phase lunar lander, is planned to begin delivering 500–1,000 kg of payload to the lunar surface by 2026.
Lunar Flashlight is scheduled to launch as a secondary payload on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lunar lander mission, slated for no earlier than late 2022.
Lunar Outpost is developing the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover that will fly on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander launching in 2023.
A second Lunar Outpost MAPP rover will launch on another Intuitive Machines lander in 2024 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Intuitive Machines had been preparing to launch its IM-1 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the first quarter of 2022 and intends to announce a new launch window.
Intuitive Machines is developing the Nova-C lander for the IM-1 mission, which is planned for later 2022 without a specific launch date.
Lonestar has contracted to perform a series of advanced service tests on Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission near Marius Hills in the Oceanus Procellarum region of the Moon.
Columbia Sportswear Company and Lunaprise have announced plans to use Intuitive Machines landers to reach the Moon.
IM-2 is slated to launch on a Falcon 9 in 2023 as Intuitive Machines’ first dedicated launch after previously targeting the fourth quarter of 2022.
Lonestar signed a contract with Intuitive Machines to test data transfer and storage capabilities during IM-1 using a software-only virtual payload at Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon’s near side.