Intuitive Machines is the prime contractor for operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
On May 18, 2026, Intuitive Machines was selected as the prime contractor for operations of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and KARI’s ShadowCam instrument.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched in 2009.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has generated over 1.6 petabytes of lunar data.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided global coverage of the Moon across varying seasons and lighting conditions.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has flown in polar and near-polar orbits within 100 kilometers of the lunar surface for more than 15 years.
NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaging and topographic observations to assess the scientific value and engineering feasibility of candidate Artemis landing sites.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Narrow Angle Camera can produce imagery at 0.5 meters per pixel.
The US Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has confirmed accumulated water ice within permanently shadowed regions near the lunar south pole.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter provided imagery and data that were extensively used to plan the Artemis II lunar flyby.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team is using the Artemis II crew’s location sketches to search for fresh impact sites.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured prior robotic imagery of crater chains northwest of Orientale.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is nearing end of life.
The Rimae Bode analysis used imaging and thermal data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The findings aid interpretation of remote sensing data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LRO-LAMP).
The team validated their temperature simulations against measurements from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner instrument and previous detections of surface water ice from India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
The research team used high-resolution terrain data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to produce their thermal stability model for Shackleton Crater.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) consists of multiple cameras including wide angle and narrow angle instruments.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flies within 100 kilometers of the Moon’s surface.
The findings assist researchers in interpreting remote sensing data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project, which has been observing the Moon since 2009.