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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]
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.
The space rock is formally named 2024 YR4. Scientists say the risk of it making contact with Earth is remote — with NASA giving it as high as a 3.1% chance before reducing its estimate to 0.28% ...
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 ...
IM-2: February 2025 [74] Intuitive Machines: Nova-C Athena: Falcon 9 Block 5: October 2020 [24] South Pole: Will carry CLPS payloads, including PRIME-1. Planned TO 20A Griffin Mission 1: September 2025 [75] Astrobotic Technology: Griffin: Falcon Heavy: June 2020 Nobile Crater: Planned CP‑11 IM-3: October 2025 [76] Intuitive Machines: Nova-C ...
After the U.S. Team's opening-round sweep, ... 2024 Presidents Cup: Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im lead wild International Team sweep to tie the U.S. ... “Whether it was 3-2, 4-1, 5-0 was ...
In November 2018, IM was selected by NASA as one of nine companies to bid on the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS). [1] Their lander, Nova-C, was NASA CLPS first mission of the program, focused on the exploration and use of natural resources of the Moon. [2] On 31 May 2019, NASA announced it had awarded Intuitive Machines $77 ...