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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001844452-24-000103"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUNR"
cik: "0001844452"
company_name: "Intuitive Machines, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:02:07.059110+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NASA awards Intuitive Machines $116.9M contract for six lunar payload deliveries

## Summary
- 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.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001844452-24-000103
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUNR
- cik: 0001844452
- company_name: Intuitive Machines, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844452/000184445224000103/0001844452-24-000103-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1844452/000184445224000103/lunr-20240829.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001844452-24-000103.txt

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