{"id":58286,"date":"2021-01-14T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-second-intuitive-machines-moon-mission\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:56:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-second-intuitive-machines-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-second-intuitive-machines-moon-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Second Intuitive Machines\u2019 Moon Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Intuitive Machines<\/b> has selected <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> to launch its <b>NASA<\/b>-backed IM-2 Polar Mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022, the company announced Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA awarded IM the $47 million contract under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in October 2020. IM will deliver NASA\u2019s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer to help NASA search for ice at the Moon\u2019s South Pole and harvest ice from below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>This is IM\u2019s second NASA payload delivery contract, and SpaceX is also set to launch its first. In October 2019, IM selected SpaceX to launch its Nova-C lunar lander mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigning with SpaceX for our IM-2 Polar Mission, our second scheduled lunar landing, is more than affordable quality lunar transport,\u201d said IM President and CEO, Steve Altemus. \u201cLaunching Nova-C on a rocket with a proven record of reliability and outstanding value is an assurance to NASA and our commercial payload customers that IM is dedicated to sticking the landing in back-to-back Moon missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX to launch its NASA-backed IM-2 Polar Mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022, the company announced Wednesday.&nbsp; NASA awarded IM the $47 million contract under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative in October 2020. IM will deliver NASA\u2019s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52820,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58286"}],"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=58286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}