Intuitive Machines

Intuitive Machines is a commercial space company based in Houston, Texas, that provides lunar services spanning delivery, data transmission and infrastructure. Its stated purpose is to enable sustained living and working on the Moon and the commercialisation of cislunar space. The firm employs more than 400 people and counts four NASA lunar missions among its current work, alongside contracts worth $118m.

The company's Nova-C family of lunar landers supports precursor missions today and is being developed toward cargo and resupply roles for sustained human lunar operations. Its Odysseus lander achieved the first commercial uncrewed lunar landing since Apollo in 1972, returning America to the lunar surface after more than five decades. Alongside delivery, Intuitive Machines builds satellite constellations for lunar surface streaming in 4K, navigation and communications, and offers data transmission and lunar infrastructure as services.

Technical work at the company spans lunar lander design and operations, uncrewed landing systems, spacecraft engineering, satellite constellation development, space navigation and communications, and cislunar infrastructure. Its executive team brings more than 250 years of combined aerospace experience.

Operational reach extends from headquarters in Houston to the lunar surface and cislunar space. The company describes its culture as mission-driven and oriented around long-term goals for sustained human presence on the Moon and commercial activity in the cislunar economy.