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Intuitive Machines Mission Control Cleared to Track Artemis I Mission
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intuitive Machines, LLC (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a leading exploration, infrastructure, and services company,
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[{"type":"text","content":" HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nIntuitive Machines, LLC (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a leading exploration, infrastructure, and services company, today announced NASA’s approval for Intuitive Machines to utilize its mission control and global ground station network to track the Artemis I Mission (“Artemis I”). Artemis I is NASA’s first mission in a series of increasingly complex missions that are expected to enable human exploration to the Moon and Mars.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221110005374/en/One-way Doppler measurements involve determining the Doppler shift in the Orion S-band return link carrier signal as observed at each of Intuitive Machines’ ground stations. By demonstrating Intuitive Machine’s capability to provide precise Doppler measurements, NASA may consider the Company’s capability to augment the agency’s existing tracking measurements. (Graphic: Intuitive Machines)\nIntuitive Machines expects to leverage its commercially available Lunar Distance Network (“LDN”) for the one-way Doppler measurements tracking the in-flight Artemis I Orion spacecraft.\n\nOne-way Doppler measurements involve determining the Doppler shift in the Orion S-band return link carrier signal as observed at each of Intuitive Machines’ ground stations. By demonstrating Intuitive Machine’s capability to provide precise Doppler measurements, NASA may consider the Company’s capability to augment the agency’s existing tracking measurements.\n\nIntuitive Machines has validated four global ground stations while working with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (“LRO”) under a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.\n\n“By granting Intuitive Machines access to LRO and Artemis I, NASA has accelerated the speed at which a commercial company can supplement lunar communications infrastructure for an entire industry,” said Steve Altemus, Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Intuitive Machines. “Demonstrating our commercial capability with Artemis I will build upon our excellence in executing our Lunar Data Services business line and provide valuable repetition before our first planned mission to the Moon in March 2023.”\n\nIntuitive Machines’ Lunar Data Services business line leverages its strategically positioned ground stations across the Earth and a planned lunar constella...