NASA taps Intuitive Machines to deliver water-measuring payload on Moon – Devdiscourse

NASA said Saturday it has awarded Houston-based company Intuitive Machines approximately USD47 million to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022.
The payload delivery will help NASA search for ice at the Moon’s South Pole as well as harvest it from below the surface, for the first time. The contract has been awarded under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
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