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Intuitive Machines

Intuitive Machines, Inc.
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: LUNR
IndustryAerospace
Founded2013 (2013)
Founders
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
,
U.S.
Key people
ProductsLunar lander, Mission Control Center, Ground stations, additive manufacturing
Number of employees
400[2] (2024)
Websiteintuitivemachines.com

Intuitive Machines, Inc. is an American space exploration company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, Kam Ghaffarian, and Tim Crain,[3] to provide commercial and government exploration of the Moon. Today the company offers lunar surface access for transportation and payload delivery, data transmission services, and infrastructure-as-a-service.[not verified in body] Intuitive Machines holds three NASA contracts under the space agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to deliver payloads to the lunar surface. Intuitive Machines is one of three companies selected by NASA to advance Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) capabilities.[not verified in body]

Intuitive Machines, LLC, went public in February 2023 after merging with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company. The company is incorporated in Delaware, and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol, LUNR.[4]

Intuitive Machines' Lunar Payload Delivery Services (LPDS) program seeks to open commercial access to the Moon. NASA selected Intuitive Machines' LPDS program for four lunar missions. In February 2024, Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander experienced a soft but unstable landing on the lunar surface, ultimately tipping over and receiving minimal data from payloads before entirely losing communications.[5] Despite not meeting many mission objectives, Odysseus is the first American spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon since the Apollo Program,[6] and the mission is considered a partial success by most industry experts.[7][not verified in body] The next Intuitive Machines' lunar mission (IM-2 and the Athena lander) in March 2025 suffered the same fate as its predecessor, tipping over due to problems with the lander's laser altimeter.[8]

  1. ^ a b "2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 25, 2024.
  2. ^ Coldewey, Devin (November 11, 2024). "Intuitive Machines CEO: 'We now have the platform for a lunar economy'". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference FoundersTracxn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Nasdaq Staff (March 2, 2025). "Intuitive Machines, Inc. Class A Common Stock (LUNR)". NASDAQ.com. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Lederer, Susan. “NASA: Intuitive Machines 1 (Odysseus).” NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2024, nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=IM-1-NOVA.
  6. ^ Wattles, Elise Hammond,Jackie (February 22, 2024). "Odysseus becomes first US spacecraft to land on moon in over 50 years". CNN. Retrieved May 19, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Odysseus Lunar Lander Makes History, Then Tips Over. February 29, 2024. Retrieved May 19, 2025 – via www.voanews.com.
  8. ^ "Intuitive Machines' CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing – Spaceflight Now". Retrieved May 19, 2025.

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