Category: Intuitive Machines

Intuitive Machines’ Moon Lander Tips Over, Company’s Stock Tumbles 30 Percent

Texas-based Intuitive Machines landed a spacecraft on the moon last Thursday, and despite making it to the lunar surface, the lander tipped over, sending shares of the company tumbling with it after the news broke. Intuitive Machines was the first private company to successfully land on the moon last week, causing its stocks to nearly double from $4.98 before Odysseus was launched on Feb. 15, to $9.59 at the close of the market on Friday. […]

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NASA Technology Contributes to Odysseus Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Now Underway

For the first time in more than 50 years, new NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations are operating on the Moon following the first successful delivery of the agency’s CLPS initiative. […]

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WATCH REPLAY: Intuitive Machines-1 Safely Touches Down on Lunar Surface, First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

Engineers had to deal with navigation issues, but accomplished the first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years. The Odysseus lunar lander is upright and starting to send data, according to Intuitive Machines. […]

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WATCH LIVE! Intuitive Machines-1 Lunar Landing Scheduled for 6:24 p.m., First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

The first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years is set for 6:24.

Among the items on its lander Odysseus, a 14-foot-tall lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, the IM-1 mission will carry NASA payloads focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies. […]

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NASA, SpaceX Prepares for Intuitive Machines’ First Robotic Flight from KSC to the Moon’s Surface

As part of NASA’s CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign, media accreditation is open for Intuitive Machines’ first robotic flight to the Moon’s surface. The robotic deliveries will transport agency science and technology demonstrations to the Moon for the benefit of all. […]

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