May. 18 at 10:51 PM
$LUNR Intuitive Machines selected a prime contractor of LROC by NASA
Intuitive Machines is now the prime contractor for operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, a key instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the ShadowCam instrument, a specialized lunar imaging camera on board the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter that provides visibility in light obscured conditions such as dark and shadowed regions of the Moon.
Under the
$15.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee three-year prime contract for LROC and the
$4.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee three-year prime contract for ShadowCam, Intuitive Machines is leading imaging operations, data storage and analysis, and mission support. The Company also is leading LROC's Moon surface mapping operations, and advance ShadowCam imaging of permanently shadowed regions. Since LRO's launch in 2009, LROC has captured more than 2.6 million Narrow Angle Camera and more than 640,000 Wide Angle Camera high-resolution images of the lunar surface as part of the LRO mission.
