{"id":42529,"date":"2026-07-23T22:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-awards-intuitive-machines-148-3-million-lunar-lander-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:20:52","slug":"nasa-awards-intuitive-machines-148-3-million-lunar-lander-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-awards-intuitive-machines-148-3-million-lunar-lander-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards Intuitive Machines $148.3 Million Lunar Lander Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NASA<\/p>\n

Intuitive Machines, Inc.<\/strong>, a space technology, infrastructure, and services company, has announced it has received a firm-fixed-price contract from NASA valued at up to $148.3 million to deliver a production-line-qualified Nova-C lander to the Moon no later than 2028. The award supports NASA\u2019s lunar surface delivery schedule and supports Moon Base operational sites in support of Artemis. <\/p>\n

By scaling manufacturing processes to support high-volume production, Intuitive Machines said it had been creating a standardized and repeatable lunar transport utility service. Intuitive Machines\u2019 development pipeline is intended to support NASA\u2019s Moon Base and operational sites across the lunar environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are shifting the paradigm from custom aerospace engineering to commercial mass production of lunar infrastructure,\u201d said Intuitive Machines CEO <\/strong>Steve Altemus<\/strong><\/strong>. \u201cOur flight-proven Nova-C platform allows us to build, test and deploy multiple landers in parallel using industry 4.0-powered manufacturing. This contract directly advances our core mission to provide a persistent, reliable, and commercial baseline of transport, connectivity, and operations that allows our customers to stay longer and achieve more on the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intuitive Machines, Inc., a space technology, infrastructure, and services company, has announced it has received a firm-fixed-price contract from NASA valued at up to $148.3 million to deliver a production-line-qualified Nova-C lander to the Moon no later than 2028. The award supports NASA\u2019s lunar surface delivery schedule and supports Moon Base operational sites in support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,20,57],"class_list":["post-42529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satellite","tag-space-vehicle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}