{"id":61430,"date":"2019-10-04T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-intuitive-machines-commercial-lunar-lander\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:05:41","slug":"spacex-to-launch-intuitive-machines-commercial-lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-intuitive-machines-commercial-lunar-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Intuitive Machines Commercial Lunar Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Houston-based <strong>Intuitive Machines<\/strong> selected <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. <strong>NASA<\/strong> awarded Intuitive Machines the first mission task order under the CLPS contract on May 31. It calls for Intuitive Machines to develop, launch, and land Nova-C on the lunar surface with a payload of NASA-provided instruments that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitive Machines reviewed proposals from multiple launch providers and ultimately selected SpaceX. Nova-C will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntuitive Machines is thrilled to sign with SpaceX to take Nova-C on its first mission to the moon,\u201d said Intuitive Machines President and CEO, Steve Altemus. \u201cSpaceX\u2019s ability to make low-cost quality lunar transport is paramount to completing NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract and Intuitive Machines becoming the first commercial company to land on the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston-based Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines the first mission task order under the CLPS contract on May 31. It calls for Intuitive Machines to develop, launch, and land Nova-C on the lunar surface with a payload [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61431,"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-61430","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\/61430"}],"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=61430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}