IM-1 Mission Nova-C Lunar Lander Successfully Enroute to the Moon Following its Launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9
February 15 2024 - 9:09AM
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive
Machines”) (“Company”), a leading space exploration,
infrastructure, and services company, has announced its IM-1
mission Nova-C class lunar lander has launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9
rocket and successfully commissioned in space by establishing a
stable attitude, solar charging, and radio communications contact
with the Company’s mission operations center in Houston.
“We are keenly aware of the immense challenges that lie ahead,”
said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus. “However, it is
precisely in facing these challenges head-on that we recognize the
magnitude of the opportunity before us: to softly return the United
States to the surface of the Moon for the first time in 52
years.”
The IM-1 mission launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 a.m. EST, Thursday,
February 15, 2024. It reached its intended orbit approximately 48
minutes later and established first communication with the lander
at 1:59 a.m. EST.
The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission is the Company’s first
attempted lunar landing as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload
Services (“CLPS”) initiative, a key part of NASA’s Artemis lunar
exploration efforts. The science and technology payloads sent to
the Moon’s surface as part of CLPS intend to lay the foundation for
human missions and a sustainable human presence on the lunar
surface.
Intuitive Machines will provide IM-1 mission updates on the
Company’s website and Twitter/X account.
About Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines is a diversified space company focused on
space exploration. Intuitive Machines supplies space products and
services to support sustained robotic and human exploration to the
Moon, Mars, and beyond. Intuitive Machines’ products and services
are offered through its four business units: Lunar Access Services,
Orbital Services, Lunar Data Services, and Space Products and
Infrastructure. For more information, please visit
intuitivemachines.com.
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plans relating to our first mission to the Moon, including the
landing of our first lunar mission. These forward-looking
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Operations and the section titled Part II. Item 1A. “Risk Factors”
in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 30, 2023, could cause actual outcomes or results to
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Contacts
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investors@intuitivemachines.com
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