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NASA awards Intuitive Machines $116.9M contract for six lunar payload deliveries
Intuitive Machines, Inc.
- Contract value $116.9M from NASA to deliver six science and technology payloads to Moon's South Pole.
- Includes European Space Agency-led PROSPECT drill suite for subsurface volatile sampling.
- This is Intuitive Machines' fourth CLPS contract award.
- Payloads: LEIA (yeast), LRA (laser retroreflector), SEAL (regolith), MAG (magnetometer), L-CIRiS (infrared).
- Second lunar mission in final assembly phase; lander delivery to launch facility scheduled late 2024.