SpaceX to launch new Intuitive Machines moon lander, lunar satellites in 2027
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The intuitive machines will use the Spacex Falcon 9 Lander IM-4 Lander missile, as shown in the artist’s show above, along with the two satellites deporting lunar communications in 2027. Credit: Intuitive machines
The intuitive machines may have shattered their latest moon on the moon, but this does not keep the company at a long level.
Houston -based company has chosen her headquarters Spacex To launch IM-4, its fourth land of the moon, on a Falcon 9 missile In 2027, along with two satellites for the sequence of the Moon Etisalat Network in NASA. The news comes just weeks after the company IM-2 Moon Lander crashed Near the southern pole of the moon, and as the company continues to work on its third land of the moon (yes, it is called IM-3), which is expected to be launched in 2026.
“Swatal delivery of the Moon’s surface and follow -up data is essential in our marketing strategy the moon“The CEO of the intuitive machines Steve Altimos He said in a statement Tuesday (April 8). “We are planning to publish the first five moons of lunar data deportation in our third mission, which will provide a service for us separately. Additional satellites aim in our fourth mission to expand the scope of this service, followed by two additional bulletins to complete the constellation and support it completely Nassa And commercial lunar operations. Intuitive machines books.
Legs from Athena Moon Lander for intuitive machines reach the sky, with a half -lit blue land above, after the investigation fell during an attempt to drop near the southern pole of the moon on March 6, 2025. | Credit: an intuitive machine
Lander Machines IM-4 Moon Lander will carry six NASA loads under a contract with the agency Moon Tourning Services program. The new drilling experience built by the European Space Agency to search for water will be near the southern pole of the moon.
Moner Moon’s first intuitive machines, called IM-1 Odysseus, Inclined After breaking the landing leg during the attempt to land in 2024. She fell to her side during Try to land the lunar southern pole On March 6.
Lander IM-3 Moon is being constructed now.