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 initially planned to launch IM-1 in July 2021 to either Oceanus Procellarum or Mare Serenitatis but pushed the launch back three months to mitigate the effect of a protest filed by Deep Space Systems to that CLPS task order award.
Intuitive Machines won one of the first CLPS task orders competed by NASA in May 2019.
Intuitive Machines was one of nine companies selected by NASA for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in November 2018 and is eligible to compete for CLPS task orders.
The IM-1 mission is scheduled to launch on 2021-10-11 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 under a launch contract between Intuitive Machines and SpaceX executed in 2019-10-01.
NASA selected Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond for initial CLPS awards in May 2019.
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are planning to launch their CLPS missions in 2021.
The January 2020 CLPS task order to deliver eight science payloads to the Moon in 2022 was similar to missions NASA awarded to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines for 2021 lander missions.
CLPS Task Order 19C covered a smaller lunar lander mission similar to the May 2019 awards to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines to carry NASA-selected payloads to the lunar surface.
NASA proceeded with a separate CLPS task order for smaller science payloads similar to the CLPS deliveries awarded in May 2019 to Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines.
NASA awarded CLPS task orders in May 2020 to Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and OrbitBeyond for lunar lander missions.
Intuitive Machines announced it is working with Boeing on engines for lunar lander studies under a separate NextSTEP program for lunar lander architecture studies.
A U.S. District Court in Delaware awarded Intuitive Machines $4,100,000 in cash and Moon Express equity in January 2018 in a dispute over software work and a return vehicle for Moon Express.
SpaceX will launch the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander on a Falcon 9 in 2021.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the District Court verdict awarding Intuitive Machines $4,100,000 in cash and Moon Express equity.
Intuitive Machines received $1,300,000 to develop a spacecraft vision processing computer and software system.
NASA awarded Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond awards in May to carry as many as 23 payloads to the surface of the moon on three commercial missions scheduled for launch between September 2020 and July 2021.
Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines received CLPS task orders alongside OrbitBeyond and were planning lander missions in 2021.
OrbitBeyond, Astrobotic, and Intuitive Machines received NASA contracts on 2019-05-31 to carry experiments and other payloads to the Moon.
Intuitive Machines received $77,000,000 to carry up to four payloads on its Nova-C lander.
Intuitive Machines planned to launch its Nova-C lander on a Falcon 9 in July 2021 and land on the moon six and a half days later.