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Intuitive Machines-2 Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast)

Watch Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Moon lander and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. IM-2 is scheduled to launch at 7:16 p.m. EST...

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - PRIME-1 (IM-2) - LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - February 26, 2025

Launch Date: February 26, 2025 (ET) Launch Time: 7:16 p.m. ET - February 27, 0016 UTC, 01:16 CET Launch Window: TBD Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center Targeted Orbit: TLI (Trans Lunar Injecti...

Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches IM-2 Moon mission from Kennedy Space Center

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines' second Nova-C class lander, which aims to land near the Moon's South Pole. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's ...

🚀SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches IM-2 to the Moon

Intuitive Machines-2 will deliver The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain (TRIDENT) and the Mass Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo). PRIME-1 will drill into the lunar surface...

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Lunar Exploration

Lunar Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 99%
B1083 - A Shortfall of Gravitas

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer. Also on board are: * Lunar Trailblazer, a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. Its mission is to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. * Odin, a spacecraft for AstroForge, a company that plans to mine asteroid resources. Odin intends to head into deep space to observe near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 in preparation for their first retrieval mission. Odin will fly by the asteroid at a distance of about 1 kilometer, arriving 11 months after launch. * CHIMERA GEO 1, a transfer spacecraft by Epic Aerospace to a geostationary orbit, with the aim of covering an orbital position. For this launch, CHIMERA-GEO is carrying an unidentified 16U cubesat manifested by Exolaunch.

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 27, 2025, 1:23 a.m.

Nova-C IM-2 acquisition of signal confirmed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 27, 2025, 1:13 a.m.

All spacecraft deployed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 27, 2025, 12:16 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Feb. 26, 2025, 11:30 p.m.

Official Webcast by NASA has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Feb. 26, 2025, 11:29 p.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Falcon 9

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Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    1
  • Max Stage
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1083

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: March 4, 2024
Last Flight: April 13, 2025
Flights: 10
Landings Attempted: 10
Landings Successful: 10
Previous B1083 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1083 has landed on ASDS ASOG after its 9th flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at A Shortfall of Gravitas.

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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