{"id":118506,"date":"2021-01-14T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-wins-contracts-for-lunar-lander-environmental-satellite-launches"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:23:36","slug":"spacex-wins-contracts-for-lunar-lander-environmental-satellite-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-wins-contracts-for-lunar-lander-environmental-satellite-launches","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wins contracts for lunar lander, environmental satellite launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-wins-contracts-for-lunar-lander-environmental-satellite-launches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a commercial lunar lander mission backed by NASA as well as a privately funded satellite to track methane emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitive Machines announced that it selected SpaceX for the launch of its IM-2 lunar lander mission on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022. IM-2 will land in the south polar region of the moon <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-awards-contracts-for-lunar-technologies-and-ice-prospecting-payload\/\">carrying payloads arranged through the agency\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The IM-2 mission will fly a drilling experiment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1), which will look for water ice below the lunar surface. Intuitive Machines said that, besides the PRIME-1 drill, two other NASA technology payloads will fly on the lander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a commercial lunar lander mission backed by NASA as well as a privately funded satellite to track methane emissions. Intuitive Machines announced that it selected SpaceX for the launch of its IM-2 lunar lander mission on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}