IM-2
2/27/2025
The IM-2 payload manifest included NASA's PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1) drill and MSolo mass spectrometer, Intuitive Machines' Micro-Nova hopper, a Nokia LTE/4G lunar communications demonstration, York Space Systems S-CLASS Khon1 lunar communications satellite, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, a Spaceflight Inc. SHERPA-based orbital transfer vehicle, AstroForge's Odin spacecraft (formerly Brokkr-2), and Epic Aerospace's CHIMERA GEO-1 tug.
Ball Aerospace was listed as the original spacecraft subcontractor for Lunar Trailblazer when NASA selected the mission in 2019.
NASA decided on 2022-11-09 to continue the Lunar Trailblazer mission for launch in mid-2023 despite exceeding its cost cap by more than 30%.
Caltech expects Lunar Trailblazer to launch during a window from 2024-01-01 to 2025-01-05.