Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2 & Others

About the mission

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer. Also on board are: * Lunar Trailblazer, a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. Its mission is to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. * Odin, a spacecraft for AstroForge, a company that plans to mine asteroid resources. Odin intends to head into deep space to observe near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 in preparation for their first retrieval mission. Odin will fly by the asteroid at a distance of about 1 kilometer, arriving 11 months after launch. * CHIMERA GEO 1, a transfer spacecraft by Epic Aerospace to a geostationary orbit, with the aim of covering an orbital position. For this launch, CHIMERA-GEO is carrying an unidentified 16U cubesat manifested by Exolaunch.

Mission description from Launch Library 2.

Objects from this launch still in orbit

• STARLINK-11584 · NORAD 63106
• STARLINK-11590 · NORAD 63112
• STARLINK-11591 · NORAD 63116
• STARLINK-11597 · NORAD 63115
• STARLINK-11598 · NORAD 63113
• STARLINK-11600 · NORAD 63114
• STARLINK-11601 · NORAD 63110
• STARLINK-11624 · NORAD 63105
• STARLINK-11625 · NORAD 63109
• STARLINK-11627 · NORAD 63107
• STARLINK-11629 · NORAD 63104
• STARLINK-11630 · NORAD 63111
• STARLINK-11632 · NORAD 63108
• STARLINK-32941 · NORAD 63119
• STARLINK-32942 · NORAD 63120
• STARLINK-32945 · NORAD 63118
• STARLINK-32947 · NORAD 63121
• STARLINK-32948 · NORAD 63123
• STARLINK-32957 · NORAD 63124
• STARLINK-32961 · NORAD 63122