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 sought FCC permission to use S-band frequencies for IM-1 despite there being no commercial allocation for S-band.
Intuitive Machines filed with the Federal Communications Commission on 2021-04-23 seeking S-band spectrum for the IM-1 mission.
Intuitive Machines won CLPS task orders for two lander missions that will launch each on Falcon 9 vehicles late 2021 and in 2022.
An Intuitive Machines lander is scheduled to reach the Moon in November 2023 launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines won the first two CLPS awards in 2019 for missions scheduled to launch later in the year the article was published.
Intuitive Machines won a CLPS award to deliver the PRIME-1 drilling payload in 2022.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its IM-2 lunar lander mission on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022.
Both Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 and IM-2 missions will use the Nova-C lander design.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA awarded Intuitive Machines its second payload delivery contract under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative on 2020-10-16.
Both of Intuitive Machines’ awarded CLPS missions will be launched by SpaceX.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX for its first lander mission, IM-1, which is scheduled to launch later 2021 as one of the first two CLPS lander missions.
Intuitive Machines operates a Lunar Payload and Data Service (LPDS) program that matures with each awarded lunar mission.
Spacebit is inviting university researchers to share data the company obtains from two miniature rovers scheduled to travel to the moon with Astrobotic Technology and Intuitive Machines in 2021.
Spacebit plans to send a wheeled rover to the moon in 2021 on Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander.
Intuitive Machines received one of the first CLPS task orders in May 2019 for a mission scheduled to launch in late 2021.
On 2020-10-16, NASA awarded a $47,000,000 task order to Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1) payload to the lunar south pole by the end of 2022.
Moon Express experienced financial issues, including a lawsuit loss against Intuitive Machines and the cancellation of a lease at Kennedy Space Center for nonpayment.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its IM-1 lunar lander mission on a Falcon 9 in 2021 as part of a rideshare mission.
In May 2019 NASA issued the first two CLPS task orders to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines for landers scheduled to launch in 2021.