IM-3 (Nova-C "Trinity")

Planned

Facts last verified against primary sources on 2026-10-13 · dates are a estimate

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Facts

Operator: Intuitive Machines
Country: US
Type: lander
Launch: no earlier than Jan 2027

Landing site

Reiner Gamma lunar swirl, near the northern edge of its central bright oval (science target) · 7.5850°N 58.7250°W

Planned landing site · source: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org

Landed

Planned landing site

Crash or hard landing

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Timeline

no earlier than Jan 2027Launch (Falcon 9), first quarter of 2027planned

Links

Intuitive Machines: IM-3official
NASA: Moon Base cargo lander updates (4 Aug 2026)press
NSSDCA: Intuitive Machines 3data

Sources

Generated 2026-10-13T00:00:00Z

launch_utc is the first instant of the published period: launch no earlier than the first quarter of 2027, not a scheduled date; schedule_confidence 'estimate'. Aerospace America (15 Sep 2026): NASA says 'the first part of 2027'. Target: the Lunar Vertex team 'will explore a portion of Reiner Gamma (7.585° N, 58.725° W) with instruments mounted on a lander and small rover' (EGU24-21717); this is the published science target, not a landing ellipse, and no uncertainty is published. Payloads include NASA's Lunar Vertex and CADRE rovers; IM-3 also deploys a relay satellite.