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Intuitive Machines will use Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd.’s services for its 2022 IM-1 mission to the Moon and for future missions.
Intuitive Machines will use KSAT services for its 2022 IM-1 mission to the Moon and for future missions.
Intuitive Machines planned to launch its Nova-C lander on the IM-1 mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Intuitive Machines won CLPS task orders for two lander missions that will launch each on Falcon 9 vehicles late 2021 and in 2022.
Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX for its first lander mission, IM-1, which is scheduled to launch later 2021 as one of the first two CLPS lander missions.
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Intuitive Machines received one of the first CLPS task orders in May 2019 for a mission scheduled to launch in late 2021.
The IM-1 mission is scheduled to launch on 2021-10-11 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 under a launch contract between Intuitive Machines and SpaceX executed in 2019-10-01.
Intuitive Machines initially planned to launch IM-1 in July 2021 to either Oceanus Procellarum or Mare Serenitatis but pushed the launch back three months to mitigate the effect of a protest filed by Deep Space Systems to that CLPS task order award.
Intuitive Machines announced it is working with Boeing on engines for lunar lander studies under a separate NextSTEP program for lunar lander architecture studies.
Intuitive Machines received $1,300,000 to develop a spacecraft vision processing computer and software system.
Intuitive Machines received $77,000,000 to carry up to four payloads on its Nova-C lander.
Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond planned to launch their landers on Falcon 9 rockets while still finalizing launch contracts with SpaceX.
Intuitive Machines planned to launch its Nova-C lander on a Falcon 9 in July 2021 and land on the moon six and a half days later.