Intuitive Machines lander
Intuitive Machines won both a CLPS task order for taking NASA's PRIME-1 mission to the moon (above) as well as a Tipping Point award for development of a lunar surface "hopper".

SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a commercial lunar lander mission backed by NASA as well as a privately funded satellite to track methane emissions.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...