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’s lunar surface delivery schedule and supports Moon Base operational sites in support of Artemis.
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’ development pipeline is intended to support NASA’s Moon Base and operational sites across the lunar environment.
“We are shifting the paradigm from custom aerospace engineering to commercial mass production of lunar infrastructure,” said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus. “Our 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.”
