NASA’s CLPS Flight: Intuitive Machines IM-2

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Be our virtual guest for the launch of Intuitive Machines IM-2, the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and the Artemis campaign for the benefit of humanity.

The Intuitive Machines Nova-C class lunar lander named Athena or, “Attie,” will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carry NASA science, technology demonstrations, and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moon’s South Pole region. Liftoff is targeted for a multi-day launch window, which opens no earlier than late February, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Among the items on its lander, the IM-2 mission will be one of the first on-site, or in-situ, resource utilization demonstration on the Moon using a drill and mass spectrometer to measure the volatile content of subsurface materials. Other technology instruments on this delivery will demonstrate a robust surface communications system and deploy a propulsive drone mobility solution.

Launching as a rideshare on the mission, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft also will begin its journey to lunar orbit, where it will map the distribution of the different forms of water on the Moon.

For more information about the agency’s CLPS initiative, see: https://www.nasa.gov/clps

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