{"id":183099,"date":"2024-02-19T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/im-1-mission-on-course-for-the-moon-after-engine-test"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:26:49","slug":"im-1-mission-on-course-for-the-moon-after-engine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/im-1-mission-on-course-for-the-moon-after-engine-test","title":{"rendered":"IM-1 mission on course for the moon after engine test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/im-1-mission-on-course-for-the-moon-after-engine-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Completing the commissioning maneuver that demonstrated the performance of the main engine, which will be used to place the spacecraft into lunar orbit and, later, land on the moon, was a major milestone for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we get through that and we know how the engine performs in space, I think our confidence actually goes up that we will have a successful landing on the moon,\u201d Trent Martin, vice president of space systems at Intuitive Machines, said of that engine test in a Feb. 12 interview.<\/p>\n<p>The IM-1 mission is carrying six NASA payloads as part of the agency\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program under a $118 million task order. It is also carrying six payloads for other customers, ranging from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to the artist Jeff Koons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completing the commissioning maneuver that demonstrated the performance of the main engine, which will be used to place the spacecraft into lunar orbit and, later, land on the moon, was a major milestone for the mission. \u201cOnce we get through that and we know how the engine performs in space, I think our confidence actually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183099","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=183099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}