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Hello Moon, I Was Built for You
By Jack “2fish” Fischer VP of Strategic Programs at Intuitive Machines May 5, 2021 It was enormous; a metallic beast laying on its belly...
May 11, 20213 min read


Tim Crain Ph.D. Joins AAS RMS 2021 Board of Directors
The Rocky Mountain Section of the American Astronautical Society (AAS) voted Intuitive Machines’ Vice President of Research and...
May 11, 20211 min read


A Promise, COVID-19, and Landing on the Moon
A Promise, COVID-19, and Landing on the Moon By Steve Altemus President and CEO of Intuitive Machines May 7, 2021 June 13th, 2020, my...
May 7, 20215 min read


Intuitive Machines Adds Legendary Telescope to its Growing Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network
CSIRO has signed a new five-year agreement with Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines to support multiple lunar missions,...
Mar 24, 20211 min read


Intuitive Machines Welcomes Former Astronaut as Vice President of Strategic Programs
Houston, Texas – Intuitive Machines (IM), a premiere provider and supplier of space products and services, has hired former NASA...
Feb 22, 20212 min read


Intuitive Machines Completes Houston’s Newest Mission Control Center
Houston, Texas – Intuitive Machines’ Nova Control will be the command center for the company’s robotic mission to the Moon later this...
Feb 9, 20212 min read


Intuitive Machines Completes Initial Testing of NASA's 2021 Moon-bound Payloads
Houston, Texas - Four NASA payloads flying aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 Nova-C lander in 2021 have completed preliminary Command and...
Jan 27, 20213 min read


Intuitive Machines Selects SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket for Second Moon Mission
There are currently five awarded Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions to the lunar surface in the next three years....
Jan 13, 20211 min read


Image-Based Navigation Could Help Spacecraft Safely Land on The Moon
A multidisciplinary team of engineers, including Intuitive Machines, demonstrated how a series of lunar images can be used to infer the...
Dec 9, 20201 min read


Actual rocket science: Inside the hundreds of hours of testing for this engine's 15 minutes of flame
Houston-based Intuitive Machines is building a nearly 13-foot-tall lunar lander, the Nova-C, that’s set to deliver commercial cargo and...
Nov 20, 20201 min read


ILOA-IM Announce Agreement for 2021 Lunar Landing and Milky Way Galaxy Center Imaging
Kamuela, Hawai’i, 12 November 2020 – The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA Hawaii) has contracted Intuitive Machines (IM)...
Nov 12, 20203 min read


NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver Lunar Ice Drill in 2022
Houston – NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass...
Oct 16, 20201 min read


Pride Automation Announces Intuitive Machines as New Client
Today, Pride Automation, Inc. (PAI) has announced that it will deliver its proprietary PRocedure Integrated Development Environment...
Jul 27, 20201 min read


Tracking sub-nanometer thermal structuralchanges with speckle interferometry
Co-authored by Intuitive Machines Advanced Composites SME, Marcel Bluth, the Applied Optics publication details the analysis of the James...
Jul 16, 20201 min read


A Houston company helped students design lunar race cars. Next time, they'll race on the moon.
Students from around the world spent four weeks scrutinizing springs that would work in lunar gravity, components that would withstand...
Jul 6, 20201 min read


‘Hygienic Hot Fire Operation’ Continues CLPS Moon Lander Progress
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation evolves across the country, Intuitive Machines remains focused on protecting the health and...
Apr 20, 20201 min read


Launch Date and Landing Site Selected For 2021 Moon Mission
Intuitive Machines (IM) engineers selected an area in Oceanus Procellarum near Vallis Schröteri as the landing site for its upcoming IM-1...
Apr 12, 20201 min read


Congratulations Masten Space Systems for NASA Contract Award
Intuitive Machines congratulates the extraordinary team at Masten Space Systems for being selected by NASA to deliver and operate eight...
Apr 9, 20201 min read


Moon Lander Engine Breaks Record at Marshall Space Flight Center
On February 28, 2020 Intuitive Machines’ propulsion team successfully test fired its VR3500 moon lander engine for over 600 seconds,...
Mar 5, 20201 min read


Moon Mark and Intuitive Machines Partner to Launch First Ever Race on the Moon
Experience the thrill of the first-ever race on the Moon!
Feb 17, 20201 min read


Intuitive Machines Unveils 2021 Moon Landing Navigation Approach
Denver – Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Lander will capture raw optical images of the lunar surface and convert them into Terrain Relative...
Feb 14, 20201 min read


Intuitive Machines Teams With Axiom Space for Construction of Commercial Space Station On ISS
Intuitive Machines will support construction of the first commercial space platform which will attach to the International Space Station...
Jan 29, 20201 min read


NASA Names Five NASA Payloads Nova-C Will Carry To The Moon
NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be...
Jan 22, 20201 min read


Intuitive Machines selected to build engines for Boeing’s Human Lander System Technology Development
Houston-based Intuitive Machines was selected to build, test and deliver prototype main stage and reaction control (RCS) engines for...
Oct 24, 20191 min read
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