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As of September 2024, IM-2 is expected to be launched no earlier than January 2025. [7] In May 2024, the company shared IM-2 entered into its final assembly stage. [ 45 ] The primary payload, PRIME-1 , includes the TRIDENT ice drill to sample ice from below the lunar surface and the MSolo mass spectrometer to measure the amount of ice in the ...
IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned 30 degree angle. All instrument payloads remained functional and the mission was deemed a success. [6]
The Spacex Falcon 9 rocket with the Blue Ghost lander successfully launched on 15 January 2025. [32] IM-2: 27 February 2025 Intuitive Machines: Nova-C: Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A: Falcon 9 [33] Griffin Mission One: September 2025 Astrobotic: Griffin: Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A: Falcon Heavy: ≈100 Earth days [34] [35] IM-3: October 2025 ...
IM-2 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried in late February 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander. [3] [4] The company named this lander Athena. [5] The mission aims to uncover the presence and amount of lunar water ice using PRIME-1, which consists of a drill and mass spectrometer.
IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus launched on 15 February 2024 towards the Moon via Falcon 9 on a direct intercept trajectory and later landed in the south polar region of the Moon on 22 February 2024 and became the first successful private lander and the first to do so using cryogenic propellants. Though it landed successfully, one of the lander's legs ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
Track and field is well underway at the 2024 Paris Olympics.. Widely considered one of the more exciting sports at the Summer Olympics, the first day of action in Paris begins Thursday with the ...
NASA selected a Nova-C mission for CLPS task order CP-11. [1] It will deliver payloads to the lunar swirl in the Reiner Gamma region. [2] In August 2021, Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its third lunar mission, IM-3. [3] As of August 2024, the launch of IM-3 is expected to take place no earlier than October 2025. [4]