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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NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a $180.4 million contract under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Intuitive Machines says additional commercial payload mass is expected to be available beyond the CLPS complement.
The NASA CLPS award is Intuitive Machines’ fifth CLPS task order.
Intuitive Machines will use its Space Data Network on upcoming missions to provide persistent connectivity across the lunar surface and the broader space domain.
Intuitive Machines will use its space infrastructure, lunar landing system, Space Data Network, and autonomous surface operations capabilities to support payload delivery under the CLPS contract.
NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a $180.4 million CLPS contract to deliver seven payloads to the Lunar South Pole region.
The NASA CLPS award is Intuitive Machines’ fifth CLPS task order.
The NASA CLPS award is the first Intuitive Machines task order to require a larger cargo-class Nova-D lunar lander.
Lanteris Space Systems is a company of Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines owns Lanteris Space Systems, which was formerly Maxar.
Advanced Navigation partnered with Intuitive Machines to deploy its LUNA module on a Moon-landing attempt scheduled for NET 2027.
Advanced Navigation has partnerships with Anduril, NOAA, Hanwha Systems, BHP, Rheinmetall, and Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines will mature the design of its reentry vehicle through a critical design review.
Intuitive Machines received $10 million from the Texas Space Commission to work on a reentry capsule designed to return experiments and products from orbit.
Astrolab and Intuitive Machines will lease space in the Texas A&M Space Institute when it opens.
In 2024 NASA selected Intuitive Machines to develop the first set of lunar relay spacecraft for a demonstration planned in conjunction with the Artemis III lunar surface mission.
The securities transaction between Intuitive Machines and the institutional investors is expected to close on February 27, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
A group of global institutional investors made a $175 million strategic equity investment in Intuitive Machines to support expansion of its Near Space Network Services to establish a solar system internet independent of Earth.
Intuitive Machines is pursuing upcoming awards including NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services, the next Commercial Lunar Payload Services award, and follow‑on Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture satellite contracts.
Intuitive Machines plans to invest in Lanteris’ 1300 series satellite platforms to grow market share in geostationary orbit, expand capability around the Moon, extend capability to Mars, and support emerging high‑power on‑orbit data processing and edge computing.