Intuitive Machines Targets February for Second Moon Landing
The company is now managing instruments on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Cislunar
Stories about the growing number of activities around the Moon.
CisLunar Industries Plots PPU Production
“This has just emerged as an opportunity, and also happens to be a pretty big market in and of itself.”
Volta Space Wants To Beam Power To The Moon
A lunar satellite constellation that harnesses solar power and uses lasers to beam it down to landers and rovers.
Argo’s Tug Joins The Lunar Water Race
A provider of “in-space transportation with in-space propellant.”
Intuitive Machines Will Build A Lunar Communications Network
“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”
NASA OIG Uncovers More Cost, Schedule Overruns for ML-2
What was originally a $383M contract to be finished by 2023 has ballooned into potentially $2.7B construction that won’t see completion until 2029.
How Nokia and Axiom Are Putting 4G on The Moon
Nokia has designed a “network in a box” that it will test on Intuitive Machine’s next uncrewed lunar mission.
Watchdogs Find Faults with Artemis IV Vehicles in Back-to-Back Reports
Over the past two weeks, two federal watchdogs—the OIG and the GAO—released separate reports highlighting critical issues with two Artemis IV vehicles: Gateway and SLS Block 1B, the upgraded SLS variant.
The Latest Satellite Rideshare Heads To Cislunar Space
SEOPS Space, a payload integrator, will partner with Intuitive Machines to offer a rideshare service to deep space.
A Dear John for dearMoon
Yusaku Maezawa has given up on his plan to orbit the Moon with a crew of creatives in SpaceX’s Starship.
NASA’s Moon Plans Are In Elon’s Hands
“If we land, it is dependent on SpaceX having their [Starship] lander ready.”
ispace Plots Lunar Data Business, Borrows $45M for Lander Missions
Other Moon-focused companies, including Lockheed Martin subsidiary Crescent and Intuitive Machines, are also planning satellite networks around Earth’s favorite satellite.