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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Lonestar contracted Intuitive Machines on 2022-04-19 to deploy a mini proof-of-concept data center on the moon in 2023.
Axiom Space and Intuitive Machines are building offices, test facilities, and mission control centers at Spaceport Houston.
GHY-6 received data from a spacecraft located nearly half the distance to the Moon during testing with Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN) will provide near-continuous coverage during the IM-1 mission to the Moon in early 2022.
Intuitive Machines and Goonhilly Earth Station are offering commercial services for lunar communications using GHY-6 and Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to launch the IM-3 lander.
NASA awarded a $77,500,000 contract to Intuitive Machines on 2021-11-17 for the delivery of four payloads to the surface of the moon in 2024.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines and its Nova-C lander for the 2024 mission, the seventh mission in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Northrop Grumman is working with Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, AVL, and Michelin as part of a five-company team to propose a lunar rover to NASA.
Intuitive Machines will develop an upgraded version of its Nova-C lander called Nova-D to deliver the rover to the lunar surface.
Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado is preparing to send a 10-kilogram Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform robotic rover to the lunar south pole in 2022 on an Intuitive Machines lander.
Spaceflight plans to debut Sherpa-ES no earlier than 2022-10-01 on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 South Pole Mission.
Spaceflight plans to debut Sherpa-ES, a bipropellant high delta-V orbital transfer vehicle, no earlier than 2022-10-01 on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 South Pole Mission.
One of Exotrail’s propulsion systems is scheduled to fly around the Moon in 2022 on a U.S. satellite built by York Space Systems for Intuitive Machines.
Spaceflight reached an agreement with Intuitive Machines on 2021-09-14 to fly as a secondary payload on the IM-2 lunar lander mission launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the fourth quarter of 2022.
York Space Systems plans to integrate the ExoMG – cluster² thruster into its S-class satellite to provide communications for Intuitive Machines’ lander scheduled to travel to the lunar south pole in late 2022.
Intuitive Machines partnered with Spaceflight Inc. to provide secondary rideshare services on the IM-2 South Pole Mission.
Intuitive Machines’ third mission, IM-3, to the Moon will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Intuitive Machines has not selected a landing site for the IM-3 mission.
Intuitive Machines scheduled IM-1 to launch in the first quarter of 2022 and IM-2 to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022.