Intuitive Machines designs much of its hardware in-house and, through the Lanteris acquisition, added a large satellite-manufacturing portfolio, an unusually broad product range for a company of its size, spanning small lunar landers to large geostationary satellites and flight-proven vehicles to systems still in development. A defining trait is that these are built as scalable families rather than one-off designs: a proven architecture can be enlarged for heavier payloads or adapted to adjacent missions, which lowers cost and risk as the line grows.
The catalog below details each offering and its development status, with key specifications where disclosed; the communications networks and mission services the Company operates follow separately.
3.1 Products
| Name | Status | Description |
| IM 300 Series Satellite | Active | A small-class satellite bus built for low Earth orbit and proliferated constellations, engineered for high-rate, low-cost production runs where dozens or hundreds of near-identical spacecrafts are required. It targets the national-security market for transport- and tracking-layer smallsats, the same profile already flying on Lanteris buses under L3Harris for the Space Development Agency’s Tranches 1–3 giving IM an entry point into the high-volume, proliferated-LEO market. |
| IM 500 Series Satellite | Active | A versatile mid-class bus derived from WorldView Legion-class heritage, optimized for Earth-observation and remote-sensing missions in low and medium Earth orbit. With greater power, payload capacity, and pointing agility than the 300-class, it serves high-resolution imaging and multi-mission needs across both government and commercial customers, bridging IM’s small-sat and GEO product lines. |
| IM 1300 Series Satellite | Active | The flagship large-class, high-power geostationary bus, with 100+ spacecraft delivered since 1989. It supports roughly 5–25 kW of payload power and up to ~150 transponders on spacecraft in the 5,500–6,700 kg class, anchoring IM’s GEO communications franchise. |
| Nova-C Lunar Lander | Active | IM’s flagship small lunar lander designed to deliver scientific, exploration, and commercial payloads to the lunar surface for government and private-sector customers. The lander combines autonomous precision-landing technology with a scalable architecture and proprietary liquid oxygen-methane propulsion system to support lunar surface operations and infrastructure development. Nova-C stands ~4m tall and delivers ~100–130kg of payload to the surface. |
| VR900 | Active | IM’s flagship rocket engine and the propulsion behind its lunar landers, fully 3D-printed and burning liquid methane and oxygen (“methalox”), a higher-performance, lower-cost, and less toxic alternative to the hypergolic propellants most landers use. It produces roughly 3,100 lbf of thrust, is designed, built, and hot-fire tested in-house in Houston, and per the company was the first methalox engine to perform a deep-space burn and lunar landing. Flown on IM-1 and IM-2, it also powers the Nebula transfer vehicle and carries into the Nova-D architecture. |
| µNova (Micro-Nova) Hopper | Active | A small propulsive ‘hopper’ drone (nicknamed ‘Grace’) deployed from Nova-C. Roughly a 0.76 m cube, it carries a small science payload and can hop up to ~25 km from the landing site to reach craters and permanently shadowed regions the lander cannot access. |
| Nova-D Lunar Lander | Development | A larger, next-generation cargo-class lunar lander designed to deliver heavier payloads to the lunar surface, debuting on IM-5 to the Mons Malapert region at the lunar south pole. Nova-D can carry ~500kg of cargo, representing roughly four to five times the capacity of the Nova-C. It unlocks heavier NASA CLPS and commercial infrastructure deliveries and is expected to be operational by 2030. |
| Nebula Orbital Transfer Vehicle | Development | An in-space ‘tug’ that ferries spacecraft between orbits, evolved from the flight-proven Nova-C and powered by the same VR900 methalox engine. Nebula carries up to ~2,100 kg to high-energy destinations (MEO, GEO, Lagrange points, lunar orbits, interplanetary), with ~1,900 m/s of delta-V for a 2,000 kg payload. |
| Zephyr Reentry Vehicle | Development | A small reentry capsule designed to bring high-value materials, space-manufactured biotech and semiconductors safely back to Earth with precise, targeted landings. Zephyr returns up to 150 kg from orbital missions lasting one to six weeks touching down under 3g and within 50 meters of its target. |
| Fission Surface Power | Development | Targets a ≥40 kWe fission surface-power flight system deliverable to the Moon by 2028. Coordinating with X-Energy to build. |
| Radioisotope “Nuclear Battery” | Development | A radioisotope power system to keep assets alive through the ~14-day lunar night and power remote infrastructure. IM sits on the Zeno Power-led NASA ‘Survive the Lunar Night’ team (an americium-241 Stirling generator targeting a 2027 surface demo). |
| Power & Propulsion Element (PPE) / SR-1 Freedom | Development | A deep-space power-and-propulsion spacecraft on the IM-1300 (Maxar 1300-class) bus, pairing 20+ kW roll-out solar arrays with 12 kW Hall-effect thrusters. Built for NASA as the foundational module of the lunar Gateway; after NASA paused / deprioritized Gateway in 2026 the design is being repurposed for SR-1 ‘Freedom,’ a nuclear-electric propulsion demonstration toward Mars (~Dec 2028 launch). |
| Super Nova Lunar Lander | Development | IM’s heavy-cargo lander and the top of the Nova family, engineered to place ~1,500–2,500 kg on the surface over an order of magnitude beyond Nova-C. Designed to deliver the heavy infrastructure a sustained lunar presence requires power systems, terrain vehicles, and pressurized rovers. |
| VR3500 | Development | A larger methalox engine under development to power the super-heavy Super Nova (Nova-M) lander. It extends the in-house VR900 architecture to the higher thrust that heavy-cargo lunar delivery requires; its thrust rating has not been publicly disclosed, though the designation implies a substantially larger engine. |
3.2 Services
| Name | Status | Description |
| Global Ground Network | Active | A worldwide network of partner ground stations that maintains continuous line-of-sight contact with the Moon, supporting S-, X-, and Ka-/ku-band uplink and downlink. It is being scaled through the acquisition of Goonhilly Earth Station (Cornwall, U.K.) and its U.S. affiliate COMSAT which adds 44 antennas, including the 32-meter GHY6 and the cryogenically cooled 30-meter GHY3 deep-space dishes. |
| Nova Control | Active | The Company’s 24-hour mission-operations center in Houston and the anchor node of the Lunar Data Network, providing tracking, telemetry, and command for cislunar missions. It ran IM-1 and IM-2 and will operate future landers and the relay constellation. |
| LROC & ShadowCam Operations | Active | Intuitive Machines operates NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera aboard the LRO spacecraft a program its team has run for more than 17 years, imaging over 98% of the lunar surface and Korea’s ShadowCam instrument, which images permanently shadowed regions. The resulting imagery and topographic models feed Artemis and CLPS landing-site selection, hazard assessment, and mission planning. |
| Deep-Space Navigation | Active | Orbit-determination and navigation services for lunar and Artemis-related missions, strengthened by the KinetX acquisition, and used to manage spacecraft constellations. |
| Satellite Fleet Operations | Active | Operations and support for a large on-orbit fleet 95-plus spacecraft in service inherited with Lanteris, serving both commercial and government satellite operators. |
| Lunar Data Relay Constellation (Near Space Network) | Development | A planned constellation of five relay satellites in lunar orbit providing persistent communications, navigation, and data relay for spacecraft on and around the Moon, closing the line-of-sight gaps that constrain direct-to-Earth links at the far side and south pole. Deployed under IM’s sole-prime NASA Near Space Network Services award and paired with the ground network, it is designed to turn one-off mission links into a subscribed, multi-user relay utility the backbone of management’s ambition for a persistent ‘solar-system internet.’ The first satellite launches on IM-3. |
| Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT) | Development | Alternative PNT services for lunar operations and national-security customers, delivered from connected assets. |
| Hosted-Payload & Infrastructure Services | Development | Hosting third-party payloads and delivering their data, alongside longer-duration infrastructure-as-a-service offerings intended to generate recurring revenue as deployed assets accumulate. |