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Concept image of Intuitive Machines Noca-C lander for the IM-3 mission taking four NASA investigations to Reiner Gamma. /Intuitive Machines
U.S. company Intuitive Machines will carry NASA robotic science and other commercial payloads to the moon in its first robotic flight to the lunar surface, according to NASA.
The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander carrying NASA science and commercial payloads will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than mid-February.
Among the NASA items on its lander, the Intuitive Machines mission will carry instruments focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies, according to NASA.
In May 2019, NASA awarded a task order for the delivery to Intuitive Machines.
NASA is working with several U.S. companies to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface through the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.