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NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 26, to share Moon Base plans and highlight progress toward a sustained presence on the lunar surface. The media briefing will take place at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington.
 
Leadership will discuss program progress, including new industry partners and mission plans. Subject matter experts will be available for one-on-one interviews after the news conference ends.
 
Watch live on NASA+ and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.
 
Participants include:
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Carlos García-Galán, program executive, Moon Base 
 
Media unable to attend in person may ask questions by telephone. To participate in person or by phone, media must RSVP to the headquarters newsroom no later than 11 a.m. on May 26, at: hq-media@mail.nasa.gov. NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online. 
 
NASA is advancing development of Moon Base, a long-term lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded scientific and commercial activity at the lunar South Pole.
 
As part of the Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.

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HOUSTON, May 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) (“Intuitive Machines”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”), a space technology, infrastructure, and services leader, is now the prime contractor for operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (“LROC”), a key instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ("LRO"), and the ShadowCam instrument, a specialized lunar imaging camera on board the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter that provides visibility in light obscured conditions such as dark and shadowed regions of the Moon.

Under the $15.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee three-year prime contract for LROC and the $4.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee three-year prime contract for ShadowCam, Intuitive Machines is leading imaging operations, data storage and analysis, and mission support. The Company also is leading LROC’s Moon surface mapping operations, and advance ShadowCam imaging of permanently shadowed regions.   

Intuitive Machines plans to interpret and integrate the publicly available LROC Planetary Data System archive for its lunar data relay satellite constellation to provide orbital and surface navigation services across government and commercial exploration.

“Exploration is empowered by data-driven insights,” said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus. “The experienced LROC team has mapped and analyzed the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Now working alongside our data services group, the LROC team is advancing secure, real-time navigation and precision surface operations, laying the foundation for scalable lunar data services.”

Since LRO’s launch in 2009, LROC has captured more than 2.6 million Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) and more than 640,000 Wide Angle Camera (WAC) high-resolution images of the lunar surface as part of the LRO mission. The mission delivers insights that help shape lunar policy, guide infrastructure planning and development, and establish a framework for deep space exploration.

The LROC images are used to generate global terrain models, high-resolution local terrain models, derive surface feature and composition maps, and provide landing site analysis data supporting NASA’s Artemis campaign and commercial lunar missions. This data represents a significant portion of the more than 1.8 petabytes stored on NASA PDS and serves as a digital backbone for modern lunar mission planning and surface operations.

Intuitive Machines is establishing foundational infrastructure required for secure, sustained lunar operations by combining the capabilities of its planned lunar data relay satellite constellation with the deep space navigation expertise of its wholly owned KinetX subsidiary and the extensive lunar imagery and analyses generated by the LROC team.

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Highlights

Closed $800 million acquisition of Lanteris Space Systems to become a vertically integrated next-generation space prime contractor for commercial, civil and national security space initiatives

Signed definitive agreement in Q2 to acquire Goonhilly Earth Station and its COMSAT subsidiary to a create a space‑to‑ground data services network configured to support missions across LEO, MEO, GEO, cislunar, and deep space environments for communications, navigation, and data processing

Awarded $428.9 million in new contracts driven primarily by Space Development Agency Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture tranche 3 tracking layer and $180.4 million CLPS contract from NASA; this marks Intuitive Machines’ fifth CLPS task order, the most among all CLPS vendors and the first to require our larger cargo class (Nova-D) lunar lander

Contracted with U.S. Space Force in Q2 as a part of the Andromeda IDIQ contract with an anticipated ceiling value of $6.2 billion to expand space domain awareness capabilities through a constellation of maneuverable satellites designed to observe and track activity in geosynchronous orbit; the first revenue synergy award to combine Intuitive Machines and Lanteris capabilities

Submitted proposals for CLPS and LTV in support of NASA’s Ignition initiative priorities; awaiting award decisions in the coming weeks while additional proposals are underway for CLPS 2.0, Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, and other Moon base infrastructure initiatives

Financial Highlights

Achieved record quarterly revenue of $186.7 million, nearly 3x of prior year driven by the Lanteris acquisition along with continued CLPS, OMES, and NSNS execution; Lanteris acquisition closed on January 13, 2026; reported Q1 revenue does not include 12 days of Lanteris, which was approximately $13 million

Reported record profitability with $2.7 million positive Adjusted EBITDA

Ended Q1 with record backlog of $1.1 billion, an $842 million increase from year-end 2025 driven primarily by the acquisition of Lanteris along with Intuitive Machines’ fifth CLPS task order

Mr. Altemus continued, “The next phase of the space economy will not be defined only by who reaches new destinations. It will be defined by who can build the infrastructure, connect it reliably, and operate it at scale. That is what Intuitive Machines is building.”

Outlook

Full-year 2026 revenue of $900 million - $1 billion

Full-year 2026 Adjusted EBITDA positive

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