{"id":194517,"date":"2024-08-13T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/intuitive-machines-seeks-to-take-over-nasas-viper-lunar-rover"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:24:19","slug":"intuitive-machines-seeks-to-take-over-nasas-viper-lunar-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/intuitive-machines-seeks-to-take-over-nasas-viper-lunar-rover","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Machines seeks to take over NASA\u2019s VIPER lunar rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intuitive-machines-seeks-to-take-over-nasas-viper-lunar-rover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intuitive Machines reported revenue of $41.4 million in the second quarter, more than double the $18 million the company reported in the same quarter of 2023. It had an operating loss of $28.2 million in the quarter, also more than double the $13.2 million operating loss it reported in the same quarter a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The company attributed the increase in revenue to new work, such as a NASA engineering services contract that started late last year as well as initial work on <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-selects-three-companies-to-advance-artemis-lunar-rover-designs\/\">a Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract the company received in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The increased losses came from what Steve Vontur, chief financial officer, described as \u201cnon-cash impacts\u201d to modifications to its next two lunar lander missions, IM-2 and IM-3, both flying payloads for NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intuitive Machines reported revenue of $41.4 million in the second quarter, more than double the $18 million the company reported in the same quarter of 2023. It had an operating loss of $28.2 million in the quarter, also more than double the $13.2 million operating loss it reported in the same quarter a year ago. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194517","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=194517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}