Intuitive Machines (Nova-C)
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The Nova-C spacecraft are a series of lunar landers developed by Intuitive Machines to deliver 100 kg of payload and instruments on the lunar surface. Part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program alongside Peregrine and Blue Ghost, its first flight (IM-1) completed the first (partially) successful US lunar landing since Apollo 17 on 2024-Feb-22
| Intuitive Machines Nova-C (2024-Present) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mission | Landing Site/Date |
Start | End |
| IM-1 (Odysseus) | Malapert A (80.13°S 1.44°E) 2024-Feb-22 | 2024-Feb-15 | 2024-Feb-29 |
| First (partially) successful US lunar landing since Apollo 17. Operated for 7 days on the lunar surface | |||
| IM-2 (Athena) | Mons Mouton (84.791°S 29.196°E) 2025-Mar-6 | 2025-Feb-27 | 2025-Mar-7 |
| Southernmost (partially) successful lunar landing to date. Failed to recharge its batteries, abruptly ending about 13 hours after touchdown | |||
| IM-3 | Reiner Gamma NET 2025-Oct | 2025-Oct | 2025 |
| Announced and awarded by NASA on December 2022 | |||
| IM-4 | TBA | 2027 | |
| Announced and awarded by NASA on September 2024 | |||
| IM-C1 | TBA | ||
| Planned commercial mission to the Moon | |||
IM-1 (Odysseus) about 30 meters above the lunar surface, shortly before landing (and tipping over), 2024-Feb-22
IM-2 (Athena) tipped over inside a 20-meter-wide crater, 2025-Mar-7
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