As part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 14, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines' first lunar lander to the Moon's surface. Liftoff will be from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Live launch coverage will air on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website, with prelaunch events starting Monday, Feb. 12. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms, including social media.
Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander is expected to land on the Moon Thursday, Feb. 22. Among the items on its lander, the IM-1 mission will carry NASA science and technology 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.
Full coverage of this mission is as follows (all times Eastern):
Monday, Feb. 12
11 a.m. - Science media teleconference with the following participants:
- Susan Lederer, CLPS project scientist, NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Farzin Amzajerdian, principal investigator, Navigation Doppler Lidar, NASA's Langley Research Center
- Tamara Statham, co-principal investigator, Lunar Node-1, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
- Daniel Cremons, deputy principal investigator, Laser Retro-Reflector Array, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
- Nat Gopalswamy, principal investigator, Radio Observations of the Lunar Surface Photoelectron Sheath, NASA Goddard
- Michelle Munk, principal investigator, Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies, NASA Langley
- Lauren Ameen, deputy project manager, Radio Frequency Mass Gauge, NASA's Glenn Research Center
Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency's website:
