Nearing the landing site, Athena will descend at about 7 mph and then, at an altitude of just over 30 feet, slow to a sedate 2.2 mph for the final drop to the surface in lunar highlands known as the Mons Mouton region, about 100 miles from the south pole.NASA is targeting the sout...
2024 was an overwhelming year for Intuitive Machines, highlighted by multiple achievements like notable contract wins, valuable partnership agreements as well as significant progress in lunar landing missions. In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission successfully launched its Nova-C lunar land...
Houston-based Intuitive Machines (IM) will attempt the first U.S. landing on the Moon in 52 years following a successful launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 early Feb. 15. The mission is backed by NASA, which supplied half of the 12 payloads onboard the company's first Nova-C lunar ...
While about half of all lunar landings end in failure,Houston-based Intuitive Machines is the first private company to succeed, also marking the first U.S. Moon landing since the final Apollo mission in 1972. This was the first successful mission as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Services P...
The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission is the Company’s first attempted lunar landing as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (“CLPS”) initiative, a key part of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration efforts. The science and technology payloads sent to the Moon’s surface as part of...
A technology used to protect the first astronauts to land on the moon is now on its way back to the lunar surface — and you may already have some of it hanging in your coat closet. Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander "Odysseus" ("Odie" for short) will attempt to become the firs...
Intuitive Machines will attempt to become the first commercial company to achieve a soft landing on the moon this week. If it succeeds in successfully touching down its Odysseus spacecraft on Thursday, it will also mark the first soft lunar landing by the U.S. since the final Apollo mission...
If successful, Nova-C will make history as one of the first private moon landing missions. Intuitive Machines Lunar Lander Intuitive Machines has developed the Nova-C lander under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. CLPS aims to spur the creation of robotic lunar delivery ...
The lunar lander was deployed on Feb. 15 for testing the lunar environment in preparation for future NASA Artemis landers.
Intuitive Machines will attempt the first-ever private moon landing in January 2024. It's not the only U.S. company aiming for the lunar surface soon.