Category Archives: Intuitive Machines

Friday / 13 Nov 2020

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Intuitive Machines Leads Missions Intent On Moon Race Long Game

USA Newspace Company Intuitive Machines Set For
Oct 2021 IM-1 Launch; 100-kg Payload Capacity Nova-C Built With US$77M CLPS Award Aims To Reach Vallis Schröteri Carrying 5 NASA Payloads: ROLSES, SCALPSS, LN-1, NDL, LRA; Multiple Independent Payloads: Embry-Riddle To Capture Landing With ‘Eagle Cam’ Deploying Prior To NOVA-C Touchdown; International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA Hawai’i) To Place Precursor Instrument ILO-X, Catch First Light Image Of MWG Center; Spacebit UK Sending 0.5U Micro Rover; IM To Follow With $47M NASA PRIME-1 Suite, 4G Communications Build-out Via ‘Lunar Hopper’ With Nokia In Late 2022

 

Credits: IM

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USA, China On Fast Track For Human Moon Missions Through Sustained Science, Exploration Programs

NASA LRO Surpasses 5 Years In Polar Mapping Orbit Collecting Data For Landings; Part Of Extensive Artemis SPD-1 To Achieve Humans At Moon South Pole (MSP) 2024, CLPS Program To See 1st Commercial Landings [Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines] Second Half Of 2021, Masten To MSP 2022, VIPER MSP 2023, PRIME-1 & 19D Contracts Upcoming; China / Zhongguo Chang’e-4 Operating On Farside, CE-5 Sample Return Launching 24 Nov, CE-6 Payloads Being Selected, CE-7 Collaboration With Russia Developing, CE-8 In 2027 May Be Final Robotic Landing Before Crew

Credits: NASA, CNSA, NAOC-CAS