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NASA provided IM-2 funding that included a $62.4 million CLPS flight award, $41.6 million for the Intuitive-built NASA-funded hopper, and $14.1 million for a lunar 4G/LTE network test.
Intuitive Machines' second CLPS lander Athena (IM-2) landed near the Moon's south pole around 85°S on March 6 and came to rest on its side inside a cold crater.
Intuitive Machines received $10 million for work on a commercial orbital return vehicle.
Intuitive Machines' Athena lander reached the surface of the Moon on the IM-2 mission in March 2025.
Intuitive Machines' publicly traded shares fell by nearly 40% at the end of the week following IM-2's failure.
The next private lunar lander mission, IM-2 by Intuitive Machines, is expected to land on March 6, 2025.
Intuitive Machines' IM-1 lander mission experienced a hard landing after damaging a landing leg.
Over the past two years, U.S. lunar surface mission attempts included one failure by Astrobotic Peregrine, one partial success by Intuitive Machines IM-1, and one successful landing by Firefly Blue Ghost.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission carrying the Athena lander on February 26.
Athena’s payloads include a NASA-funded drill and spectrometer, a rover from Lunar Outpost, a rover from Japan-based Dymon, a NASA-funded hopper from Intuitive Machines, and a retroreflector.
Intuitive Machines' IM-2 is scheduled to land on March 9, 2023, at 11:32 am Central time.
The next mission under CLPS is the IM-2 lander, launched by Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines was the first space company to successfully land on the Moon at 80 degrees South latitude at the Malapert-A crater on February 22, 2024.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft attempted its first Moon landing as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
Intuitive Machines became the first to lunar land using cryogenic methalox engines and optical navigation.
The Western media has inaccurately portrayed Intuitive Machines' Odysseus landing attempt as more successful than it was.
Intuitive Machines recorded $22.8 million in combined losses for its lunar missions this year.
Intuitive Machines falsely proclaimed the Odysseus mission as a 'soft and safe landing' and an 'unqualified success.'
Intuitive Machines and NASA retrospectively skewed the success criteria for the Odysseus mission.
Intuitive Machines is a key provider for NASA's crewed Artemis program.