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The Nova-C lander was designed to be compatible with methane and oxygen fuel sources that are believed to be available on both the Moon and on Mars. For future missions, methane and oxygen could potentially be "harvested" wherever the Nova-C lander may be based using In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) (off-world resource processing technologies).
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, launched into space on Feb. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The 14-foot-tall lander then spent six days cruising more than 620,000 miles ...
Nova-C lunar lander drifts away from Falcon 9's second stage after deployment in orbit. After separation from the launch vehicle, the Nova Control operations center established communication with the lander and conducted initial checkouts. Images captured by the spacecraft after separation from the launch vehicle were released on February 17. [46]
The company's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk' SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape ...
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 moon landing missions planned to take place in the next few months are the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Nova C and the iSpace Hakuto-R Mission 2.
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 ...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch landers for both Firefly and Ispace is set to lift off as soon as 1:11 a.m. ET Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.