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Intuitive Machines, Inc. Intuitive Machines, Inc. is an American space exploration company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, Kam Ghaffarian, and Tim Crain, to provide lunar surface access, lunar orbit delivery, and communication from lunar distance. [1] Intuitive Machines holds three NASA contracts ...
The Space Launch System core stage, or simply core stage, is the main stage of the American Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, built by The Boeing Company in the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. At 65 m (212 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, the core stage contains approximately 987 t (2,177,000 lb) of its liquid hydrogen and liquid ...
The Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), [4][5] also called the Minimal Habitation Module (MHM) and formerly known as the Utilization Module, is a scaled-down habitation module as part of the Lunar Gateway. [6] It will be built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. [7][8] A single Falcon Heavy will launch HALO along with the PPE module ...
August 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM. (Reuters) - NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines a $116.9 million contract to deliver six science and technology payloads to the Moon's south pole, the space exploration ...
Launch status check. A launch status check, also known as a "go/no go poll" and several other terms, occurs at the beginning of an American spaceflight mission in which flight controllers monitoring various systems are queried for operation and readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the ...
The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, had been scheduled to lift off early Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, SpaceX announced on X that a helium leak delayed the launch ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon. Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1][2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
For attitude [a] control the vehicle uses a helium reaction control system. [22] Each thruster in the RCS uses cold helium gas to produce 4.45 N (1 lbf) of thrust to adjust the spacecraft's attitude. At launch Nova-C is filled with 845 kg (1,863 lb) of liquid oxygen, 422 kg (930 lb) kg of liquid methane and 17 kg (37 lb) of gaseous helium.