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NASA’s contract with Intuitive Machines for this CLPS award includes one European Space Agency-led drill suite among the six science and technology payloads to be delivered to the Moon’s South Pole.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a set of payloads to the south polar region of the Moon in 2027.
The task order CP-22 award to Intuitive Machines is the fourth task order the company has received under the CLPS contract, more than any other company on the CLPS contract.
Intuitive Machines will receive $116,900,000 from NASA to deliver six NASA payloads to the lunar South Pole in 2027.
Intuitive Machines delivered six NASA payloads to Malapert A in the Moon’s South Pole region in early 2024.
Intuitive Machines is in the final assembly phase of its second lunar mission and is scheduled to deliver the completed lander to the launch facility in late 2024.
The Intuitive Machines-2 CLPS flight will deliver NASA’s first on-site demonstration of searching for water and other chemical compounds 1.01 m below the lunar surface using a drill and mass spectrometer.
Nokia plans to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon as part of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission, which is scheduled to be delivered to the launch site in 2024.
The Artemis program has seen both failures, such as Astrobotics, and successes, such as Intuitive Machines.
Intuitive Machines is completing a $30,000,000 Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services Feasibility Assessment as the prime contractor.
The $30,000,000 feasibility contract tasks Intuitive Machines’ global team with creating a roadmap to develop, deploy, and operate a Lunar Terrain Vehicle using the company’s cargo-class lunar landers.
Intuitive Machines designed, 3D-printed, and tested the IM-2 VR900 engine in-house.
EnduroSat is building solar panels for the second Intuitive Machines mission to the Moon.
Lunar Trailblazer is scheduled to launch late 2024 as a rideshare on the second Intuitive Machines lander.
Intuitive Machines is developing a third Nova-C lander, IM-3, with a planned launch in 2025.
Intuitive Machines is seeking to maintain a cadence of lunar lander missions between IM-3 and the next potential CLPS mission, which is a task order to be awarded by NASA for launch in 2027.
Intuitive Machines had a net loss of $14,000,000 in the first quarter of 2023.
Intuitive Machines described the technical improvements for IM-2 as vertically integrated capabilities that can be performed with little or no impact on the intended quarter 4 2024 launch date and without requiring additional capital while assembly continues.
Intuitive Machines is forecasting revenues between $200,000,000 and $240,000,000 for 2024.
Intuitive Machines will upgrade communications, tracking, and landing systems on the Nova-C lander based on lessons from the IM-1 mission.