In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander will carry four mobile robots, including a hopper named Gracie, toward the moon when ...
The IM-2 mission will test lunar mobility, resource prospecting and the first-ever cellular network on the moon.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines and Starlab Space each got at least $7M from the state's Space ...
Both Athena and Odysseus are based on Intuitive Machines' Nova-C class lunar lander spacecraft, which takes the shape of a tall, hexagonal cylinder. "Each lunar mission builds on the last ...
Several missions under contracts with NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program are planned for this year.
Simply put, NASA is working with private space companies to deliver science and technology payloads to the moon. Odysseus lunar lander, built by Intuitive Machines, was also part of that effort.