IM-6

Intuitive Machines · Nova-C · manifested

Launch: by 2028. Landing: late 2028 (NASA).

Awarded 30 June 2026 ($148.3 million). Landing site not in the sources. The name IM-6 is from Wikipedia; Intuitive Machines calls it its sixth CLPS task order. Voyager ties Astrobotic's share of the same award to task order CS-8.

Wikipedia: no article on this mission (checked 6 October 2026).

Payload	Kind	FO	Earlier flights	On the Moon
Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS); version not stated by NASA	NASA payload	none	earlier lunar mission	not yet flown
Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA)	NASA payload	none	Earth orbit or deep space, earlier lunar mission	not yet flown
Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS)	NASA payload	none	Earth orbit or deep space, ISS or MISSE	not yet flown