Author Topic: SpaceX F9 : Intuitive Machines IM-1 : KSC LC-39A : 15 Feb 2024 (06:05 UTC) (Read 469544 times)

realnouns · « **Reply #60 on:** 02/16/2022 07:20 pm »

Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 02/16/2022 06:33 pm

What requirement or requirements does this launch have to stipulate using LC-39A?

NASA payloads as part of CLPS

gongora · « **Reply #61 on:** 02/16/2022 07:58 pm »

Quote from: realnouns on 02/16/2022 07:20 pm

Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 02/16/2022 06:33 pm
What requirement or requirements does this launch have to stipulate using LC-39A?

NASA payloads as part of CLPS

No, it doesn't have to launch from 39A just because it's a NASA related mission. If plans haven't changed, SpaceX was going to install extra plumbing at the launch site for loading propellant on the payload.

Phil Stooke · « **Reply #62 on:** 02/22/2022 08:07 pm »

https://twitter.com/Columbia1938/status/1494818072376614927

This tweet suggests a summer 2022 launch date for IM-1, about a 3 or 4 month delay. Whether it is authoritative or just aspirational is, of course, not clear, but other suggestions floating around say near the end of the year so this is more encouraging.

Lijazos · « **Reply #63 on:** 03/01/2022 04:14 pm »

Intuitive Machines published a render/animation of it's upcoming mission IM-1

Not directly related but IM also partnered with Kerbal Space Program for a challenge in which, if chosen as winner, you'll get to join their team in Mission Control Center in Houston, TX to watch the landing of the first Nova-C live.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/207079-getting-back-to-the-mun-a-nova-c-lunar-lander-challenge-contest/

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #64 on:** 03/28/2022 06:17 am »

SFN Launch Schedule update, March 25 (one of many):
IM-1 launches in Q3 2022 from Kennedy LC-39A.

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #65 on:** 05/10/2022 06:21 pm »

Cross-post:

Quote from: Phil Stooke on 05/10/2022 04:05 pm

News from the current Lunar Surface Science Workshop just a few minutes ago: Lunar Flashlight, bumped from Artemis-1 as not ready in time, is now manifested as a secondary payload on IM-1 in the 4th quarter of this year. Stated by Barbara Cohen, who should know.

Yiosie · « **Reply #66 on:** 05/31/2022 08:59 pm »

Cross-post:

Quote from: Yiosie on 05/31/2022 08:24 pm

New and updated NASA Launch Schedule entries:

https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

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Date: December 22, 2022
Mission: Intuitive Machines Commercial Payload Lunar Services

gongora · « **Reply #67 on:** 07/20/2022 04:36 pm »

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1549794532182695936

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At a CLPS panel at #GlennSymposium2022, Astrobotic says it’s still planning launch of its Peregrine lander before the end of the year, while Intuitive Machines says its IM-1 launch is now likely in January (vs. late this year).

sdsds · « **Reply #68 on:** 07/29/2022 08:13 pm »

Quote from: Jeff Foust — July 29, 2022

Masten states in the filing that it has a “stalking horse asset purchase agreement” for its SpaceX launch credit with Intuitive Machines,

https://spacenews.com/masten-space-systems-files-for-bankruptcy/

Is IM-1 the launch for which the purchase agreement would apply, or some later launch?

Phil Stooke · « **Reply #69 on:** 07/30/2022 06:48 am »

Must be later. IM-1 is almost ready to go and must already be settled. Any contract would be fairly time-flexible, but they were expecting to go in c. late 2023 so the IM mission would be in that time somewhere, maybe the Reiner Gamma mission.

crandles57 · « **Reply #70 on:** 07/30/2022 09:59 am »

My understanding is that
A stalking-horse bid is the initial bid on a bankrupt company's assets from an interested buyer chosen by the bankrupt company.

So it doesn't mean that IM will win an auction for the asset.

It would seem that both Masten and IM agree that Masten have paid a substantial deposit: If the flight needs new work for a different payload, I would assume that SpaceX would be able to charge for that extra work. It seems that despite this at least two companies think that there is an asset to sell suggesting Masten's prepayment is substantial. There may be less extra work that SpaceX could charge for if the same destination is wanted and the same payload adaptor is used. I am thinking this might be why Masten selected IM.

If IM or anyone else wins an auction for the prepaid flight asset, then it would presumably be for extra payloads not ones already arranged.

Rondaz · « **Reply #71 on:** 08/20/2022 01:41 am »

We're celebrating #NationalAviationDay day by preparing Nova-C to fly to the Moon.

https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1560681751533330434

Phil Stooke · « **Reply #72 on:** 08/20/2022 06:42 am »

https://twitter.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1560343096533176324

Marcia Smith tweets about CLPS with a graphic showing that IM-1 is now targeted for Mare Crisium. I have been following landing site planning for CLPS and Intuitive keeps changing. At LEAG in 2019 they had a Mare Serenitatis target, then in 2020 their website gave a site on the Aristarchus Plateau. FCC filings suggested a different site in Serenitatis and now it seems to be Mare Crisium. It might be the wishes of its payload customers driving these changes. I did ask Intuitive via their somewhat ineffective website but no response.

scr00chy · « **Reply #73 on:** 09/16/2022 12:11 pm »

https://7c27f7d6-4a0b-4269-aee9-80e85c3db26a.usrfiles.com/ugd/7c27f7_09ce4413f95641ccbfab957b750d3d2f.pdf

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For its first mission scheduled for no earlier than Q1 2023, an Intuitive Machines lunar lander, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, is expected to transport government and commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon, marking the United States’ first return to the Moon since NASA’s last Apollo mission in 1972.

scr00chy · « **Reply #74 on:** 09/16/2022 02:00 pm »

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NASA has asked the company to land its IM-1 mission near the South Pole, instead of an equatorial region of the Moon. This has contributed to a slip in its launch on a Falcon 9 rocket to March 2023.

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1570755968602116104

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #75 on:** 10/25/2022 07:01 am »

Still March

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1584685861043511296

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Peter McGrath of Intuitive Machines says in an #ascendspace panel they’re planning their IM-1 lander launch in March 2023, close to Astrobotic, which is targeting first quarter of 2023 for Peregrine.

Bean Kenobi · « **Reply #76 on:** 10/29/2022 12:15 pm »

Cross-post (no more on IM-1) :

Quote from: Rondaz on 10/29/2022 12:08 pm

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for the Moon’s Water Ice

Oct 28, 2022

Set for a November launch, the small satellite mission will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-lunar-flashlight-ready-to-search-for-the-moon-s-water-ice

Phil Stooke · « **Reply #77 on:** 11/05/2022 05:48 am »

Has anyone seen an orbital debris assessment report for IM-1 since its launch date and landing site have changed? I don't know if they have to be updated so maybe the one from 2021 is still the latest.

gongora · « **Reply #78 on:** 11/05/2022 04:23 pm »

Quote from: Phil Stooke on 11/05/2022 05:48 am

Has anyone seen an orbital debris assessment report for IM-1 since its launch date and landing site have changed? I don't know if they have to be updated so maybe the one from 2021 is still the latest.

Phil Stooke · « **Reply #79 on:** 11/05/2022 07:40 pm »

Thanks! My admittedly rather simple Googling had only turned up the 2021 report. It's interesting to me that this new report (the January 2022 file) still gives a landing site on the Aristarchus Plateau despite all the changes to that plan in the last 2 years. The 2021 report gave a landing site between Serenitatis and Crisium and the older Aristarchus site had been announced in April 2020 on the company website.