# Intuitive Machines: space company profile

> Intuitive Machines: Intuitive Machines, trading as LUNR, achieved the first American Moon landing in over 50 years with its Nova-C lander under NASA's CLPS program.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-10-19; quote fetched 2026-10-20 03:49 UTC
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## Profile facts

- Name: Intuitive Machines (legal name Intuitive Machines, Inc.)
- What it does: Intuitive Machines, trading as LUNR, achieved the first American Moon landing in over 50 years with its Nova-C lander under NASA's CLPS program. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: exploration, lunar-landers
- Headquarters: Houston, Texas, US
- Founded: 2013
- Employees: 1001-5000
- Chief executive: Steve Altemus
- Status: active
- Ownership: public
- Publicly traded: yes, LUNR on NASDAQ
- Website: [https://www.intuitvemachines.com](https://www.intuitvemachines.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-19

## Market data

- Share price: $10.74 (-0.37% over 24 hours)
- Market capitalisation: $1.73B
- Quote: Yahoo Finance, fetched 2026-10-20 03:49 UTC
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## Funding

- Raised privately before listing: No private round on record (No private round on record before Feb 2023. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)

No funding round recorded on this profile.

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## Space Score

- Score 706 of 1000, tier Contender.
- Rank 14 of 94 ranked companies.
- 6 of 7 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-20 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (46% of this total): 51 of 100
- Government space demand (31% of this total): 94 of 100
- Capital access (15% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Momentum (23% of this total): 79 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=intuitive-machines#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
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## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-30 | NASA | FINALIZE THE MISSION DESIGN, EXECUTE LONG LEAD PROCUREMENTS TO SUPPORT THE AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, AND DELIVER ALL BASE MILESTONES AND PRODUCTS. | $29.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F7020_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000) |
| 2026-04-29 | DoD | CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MINIMUM GUARANTEE | $100K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881926FB012_9700_FA881926DB014_9700) |
| 2026-03-31 | NASA | SUSTAINED OPERATIONS OF THE SHADOWCAM INSTRUMENT ABOARD THE KOREA PATHFINDER LUNAR ORBITER (KPLO) MISSION AS DESCRIBED IN ATTACHMENT A, STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW). | $1.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80HQTR26C0001_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-03-25 | NASA | CLPS TASK ORDER CT-4 PAYLOADS AND RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON. | $46.8M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC026F7009_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000) |
| 2025-09-18 | NASA | PHASE E LROC CONTRACT AWARD | $6.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC25C0006_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-07-16 | NASA | CX-1 INTUITIVE MACHINES MID-SIZED LANDER STUDY BASE AWARD | $492K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025F7060_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000) |
| 2025-07-15 | NASA | THE SPECIAL STUDY FOR LTVS CAPABILITIES IS INTENDED TO INCREASE NASA UNDERSTANDING THE EXTENT OF CURRENT CAPABILITIES TO SUPPORT THE UNCREWED TRANSFER OF LOGISTICS ITEMS ON THE LTV AND POSSIBLE MODIF… | $462K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC025FA135_8000_80JSC024DA020_8000) |
| 2025-04-30 | NASA | THIS IS A FFP CONTRACT FOR NEXTSTEP2 APPENDIX R: LUNAR LOGISTICS AND MOBILITY STUDIES. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM A STUDY WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF DEVELOPING A LOGISTICS HANDLING AND OFFLOADING CONCEP… | $3.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80HQTR25CA004_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-01-29 | NASA | NEAR SPACE NETWORK (NSN) SERVICES (SUBCATEGORIES 1.2 (GEO TO CISLUNAR DIRECT TO EARTH (DTE)) AND 1.3 (XCISLUNAR DTE)) | $690K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC25CA007_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-09-27 | NASA | PRE PRICED EVALUATION OF NASA MISSION REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT | $1.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024FA180_8000_80JSC024DA020_8000) |
| 2024-09-23 | NASA | NEAR SPACE NETWORK (NSN) SERVICES (SUBCATEGORY 2.2 GEO TO CIS-LUNAR RELAY) | $27.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC24CA018_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-09-20 | NASA | NEXT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES FOR EXPLORATION PARTNERSHIPS 2-(NEXTSTEP-2) | $648K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC24CA073_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-08-29 | NASA | COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) | $89.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC024F0079_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000) |
| 2023-09-11 | NASA | NEXT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES FOR EXPLORATION PARTNERSHIPS 2-(NEXTSTEP-2) CIS CAPABILITIES STUDIES FOR WIDEBAND/PHASED ARRAY/CROSSLINK | $127K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC23CA075_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2021-11-17 | NASA | CLPS TASK ORDER CP-11 CLPS PAYLOADS AND RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON | $85.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80JSC022F0022_8000_80HQTR19D0010_8000) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 0

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- Federal award records: contract awards

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