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Intuitive Machines

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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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesNarrative GeneralFeb 10, 2025What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

ISRO will provide commercial ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ second CLPS Moon landing mission, IM-2.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

IM-1 was Intuitive Machines’ first NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Moon mission.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

Intuitive Machines uses a global network of commercially availed ground stations for its Moon missions.

Mentioned as: intuitive machinesNarrative GeneralFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

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'.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 6, 2025ISRO provided ground tracking support for Intuitive Machines’ NASA CLPS Moon landing

Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission was a NASA CLPS mission that occurred in 2024.

Mentioned as: intuitive machinesNarrative GeneralFeb 3, 2025Moon Monday #211: A long march of lunar papers from China, and mission updates

Multiple ISRO sources and a program lead at ISTRAC indicate that Intuitive Machines commercially used ISRO's ground tracking support for IM-1.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 3, 2025Moon Monday #211: A long march of lunar papers from China, and mission updates

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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductFeb 3, 2025Moon Monday #211: A long march of lunar papers from China, and mission updates

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus was the first lander to perform a lunar landing attempt using cryogenic methalox engines.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

JAXA’s SLIM lunar lander achieved higher landing precision and more successful payload operations than Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus by technical measures.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander experienced a hard landing that prevented at least one payload from collecting any data.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

Intuitive Machines has scheduled second and third Moon landing missions under NASA CLPS and has a contracted fourth CLPS mission.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesOrg RelationshipJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

NASA transferred operations of two lunar orbital imagers to Intuitive Machines.

Mentioned as: intuitive machinesNarrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

The book’s final chapter discusses recent commercial missions by Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesNarrative GeneralJan 13, 2025Review: Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon

NASA plans to acquire lunar navigation and communications (navcom) as a service for the Artemis program with Intuitive Machines as a key navcom provider.

Mentioned as: intuitive machinesNarrative PlanJan 13, 2025Moon Monday #208: What makes a lunar landing mission “successful”?

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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesTechnical ProductDec 26, 2024NASA selects four companies for commercial communications services

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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2024NASA delays launch of heliophysics missions

The IM-2 lunar lander mission by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to launch no earlier than February 2025.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2024NASA delays launch of heliophysics missions

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.

Mentioned as: Intuitive MachinesNarrative PlanDec 19, 2024Firefly wins NASA contract for third lunar lander mission
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