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Intuitive Machines noted that its IM-1, IM-2, and IM-3 lander missions are considered 'loss contracts' due to costs surpassing expected revenue.
ISRO will provide commercial ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ second CLPS Moon landing mission, IM-2.
IM-1 was Intuitive Machines’ first NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Moon mission.
Multiple ISRO sources and a public talk by a program lead at ISRO’s spacecraft communications arm ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO’s ground tracking support for IM-1.
Intuitive Machines uses a global network of commercially availed ground stations for its Moon missions.
A paper on orbit determination for IM-1 begins with the sentence 'Intuitive Machines (IM) recently met its goal of softly landing a robotic spacecraft near the south pole of the Moon'.
Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission was a NASA CLPS mission that occurred in 2024.
Multiple ISRO sources and a program lead at ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO's ground tracking support for IM-1.
A published paper on IM-1's orbit determination opens by stating that Intuitive Machines achieved a soft landing near the lunar south pole, while the mission did not achieve a soft landing.
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus was the first lander to perform a lunar landing attempt using cryogenic methalox engines.
JAXA’s SLIM lunar lander achieved higher landing precision and more successful payload operations than Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus by technical measures.
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander experienced a hard landing that prevented at least one payload from collecting any data.
Intuitive Machines has scheduled second and third Moon landing missions under NASA CLPS and has a contracted fourth CLPS mission.
NASA transferred operations of two lunar orbital imagers to Intuitive Machines.
The book’s final chapter discusses recent commercial missions by Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines.
NASA plans to acquire lunar navigation and communications (navcom) as a service for the Artemis program with Intuitive Machines as a key navcom provider.
Intuitive Machines won a task order in September to provide communications services between the moon and geostationary orbit and won two additional task orders for direct-to-Earth communications augmenting NASA’s Lunar Exploration Ground Segment.
NASA moved the Lunar Trailblazer off the IMAP launch in 2022 and purchased a rideshare launch slot for Lunar Trailblazer on the IM-2 lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines.
The IM-2 lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to launch no earlier than February 2025.
NASA awarded a CLPS task order to Intuitive Machines in August for the IM-4 mission that will go to the lunar south pole region in 2027.