Intuitive Machines To Initiate Lunar Communications Capability

June 21, 2021
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines (IM), one of NASA’s early Commercial Lunar Services Payload Services (CLPS) providers, announced plans on June 21 to place a communications satellite in orbit around the Moon to provide a data link to Earth as part of its second lunar mission planned for late 2022. The...

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