NASA Awards Intuitive Machines $180.4M Contract for Lunar Payload Deliveries

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines a $180.4 million contract to deliver seven science and technology payloads to the moon's south pole. This is the company's fifth Commercial Lunar Payload Services delivery mission and targets Mons Malapert, a strategically important ridge near the lunar south pole. The mission includes an Australian Space Agency lunar rover and technologies developed by Honeybee Robotics, a unit of Blue Origin.