IM-3

Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Trinity · manifested

Launch: 2026 (NASA's CP-11 page); no earlier than Q1 2027 (Wikipedia, Sept 2026). Landing: not in public sources.

NASA calls it Moon Base III; target Reiner Gamma. Counts differ: NASA's CP-11 page lists four NASA CLPS science payloads (Lunar Vertex, CADRE, and the ESA and KASI partner payloads); NASA's August 2026 article says five NASA payloads, six commercial and one civil. NASA's Moon Base page names Lunar Vertex and LDES for Trinity, and also lists LDES on Griffin-1; the sources don't say if two units fly. Intuitive Machines' Altus-1 relay satellite flies alongside with three payloads, among them NASA's NavCube3-mini; it is not on the lander and is not listed. Commercial payloads named by Wikipedia (AstroForge's Vestri, Lunaria One's ALEPH-1) are not listed.

Wikipedia: IM-3.

Payload	Kind	FO	Earlier flights	On the Moon
Lunar Vertex (LVx)	NASA payload	none	earlier lunar mission	not yet flown
Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE)	NASA payload	none	none found	not yet flown
MoonLIGHT Pointing Actuator (MPAc), ESA	partner payload	none	earlier lunar mission	not yet flown
Lunar Space Environment Monitor (LUSEM), KASI	partner payload	none	Earth orbit or deep space	not yet flown
Lunar Dust Level Sensor and Effects on Surfaces (LDES)	NASA payload	company-level	none found	not yet flown