Intuitive Machines Selected to Provide Spacecraft Platform and Mission Solutions for NASA's FALCON-RADAR Earth Science Mission
Key Highlights
- ➤NASA JPL selects Intuitive Machines to provide FALCON-RADAR spacecraft platform and integration
- ➤FALCON-RADAR will fly on IM 300 spacecraft bus no earlier than 2029
- ➤FALCON-RADAR marks Intuitive Machines' third NASA Earth science mission award in six months
- ➤FALCON-RADAR will carry W-Band radar for cloud and convection observations
Expert Statements
Steve Altemus, Chief Executive Officer of Intuitive Machines
“Our reliable and modular platforms align with NASA's goal of delivering more science on faster timelines”
Steve Altemus, Chief Executive Officer of Intuitive Machines
“We combine spacecraft manufacturing at scale with deep mission systems and integration expertise, and Earth science is a natural fit.”
Steve Altemus, Chief Executive Officer of Intuitive Machines
“This mission draws on the same capabilities we already deliver across our commercial, civil, and national security work.”
HOUSTON, Nov. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) ("Intuitive Machines," and together with its subsidiaries, the "Company"), a leading space technology, infrastructure, and services company, today announced that it has been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide the spacecraft platform and system-level integration for FALCON-RADAR, an Earth observation mission that will study clouds and convection from space.
FALCON-RADAR, which is part of the Fleet for the Atmospheric Linking Commercial Observations with NASA, will fly on the IM 300™ spacecraft bus and is targeted for launch in no earlier than 2029. The mission consists of a single polar-orbiting, sun-synchronous satellite carrying a W-Band Cloud Profiling Doppler Radar instrument designed to observe shallow light precipitation and small-scale cloud dynamics. Through the FALCON-RADAR mission, millimeter-wavelength radar technology may support advances towards Moon and Mars applications.
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