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From humble beginnings sketched on a napkin in 2012, Intuitive Machines has grown into a diversified space exploration company focused on fundamentally disrupting lunar access economics.
Intuitive Machines, Inc. is an American space exploration company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, [1] Kam Ghaffarian, and Tim Crain, to provide lunar surface access, lunar orbit delivery, and communication from lunar distance. [2]
Intuitive Machines unveiled the Moon RACER lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) at Space Center Houston on Thursday, November 7. RACER, an acronym for Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover, accommodates two astronauts and some 400 kg (882 lbs.) of cargo, and is designed to pull a trailer loaded with an additional 800 kg (1,764 lbs.). The LTV was developed for NASA's Artemis campaign.Intuitive ...
Intuitive Machines isn’t on its way to becoming a new prime; the traditional procurement methods of cost plus awards are giving way to fixed-price contracts with built-in long tails of services ...
Intuitive Machines flight controllers successfully fired the first liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine in space, completing the IM-1 mission engine commissioning. This engine firing included a full thrust mainstage engine burn and throttle down-profile necessary to land on the Moon.
About Intuitive Machines. Intuitive Machines is a diversified space exploration, infrastructure, and services company focused on fundamentally disrupting lunar access economics.
Intuitive Machines ’ second moon mission is still on track to launch before the end of this year, after the company only had to make minor adjustments to the lunar lander design, executives said...
Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lander, also called Odysseus or “Odie,” is mere miles from the lunar surface as it aims to make history — becoming the first commercial spacecraft to soft-land on ...
If Intuitive Machines' Nova-C IM-1 lander makes it to the Moon, it will become both the first American spacecraft to do so since the Apollo program.
Intuitive Machines of Houston will receive $116.9 million to deliver six NASA payloads to a part of the Moon where nighttime temperatures are frigid, the terrain is rugged, and the permanently shadowed regions could help reveal the origin of water throughout our solar system.