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IM-2 is an upcoming lunar mission that will be carried out in January 2025 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander. [2] The company named this lander Athena. [ 3 ] The mission aims to uncover the presence and amount of lunar water ice using PRIME-1 , which consists of a drill and mass spectrometer.
The Intuitive Machines Nova-C, or simply Nova-C, is a class of lunar landers designed by Intuitive Machines (IM) to deliver small payloads to the surface of the Moon. Intuitive Machines was one of three service providers awarded task orders in 2019 for delivery of NASA science payloads to the Moon. [8]
Farther out, Intuitive Machines will launch its IM-2 mission to the moon late in 2024, or early in 2025. ... mission to put a rover on the moon to search for ice near the south pole. ...
Intuitive Machines provides infrastructure as a service and is the catalyst for growing a lunar economy by using three pillars of commercialization: Transportation and delivery of payloads (satellites, scientific instruments, cargo), including rideshare delivery and lunar surface access; collection, processing, and interpretation of space-based data, by applying command, control ...
Intuitive Machines is now looking ahead to its second lunar mission, IM-2, which is scheduled for November. Altemus said the company conducted a 30-day review of its first mission to improve its ...
That mission, called IM-2, is sold out, and a third is planned. Intuitive chief executive Steve Altemus said Wednesday that since the landing, the European Space Agency had expressed interest in ...
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.
It has been suggested that this article be merged with IM-2. ( Discuss ) Proposed since December 2024. Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 ( PRIME-1 ), also known as Intuitive Machines 2 (IM2) , is a planned NASA mission to land a robotic probe near the South Pole of the Moon .