Moon Base III / Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Trinity is a mission record in the MoonOpps lunar catalog (2026–2035), tracked for 2026 (2026 / targeted this year). Status: Planned. Class: Robotic lander. Source confidence is High — corroborated by clear official or primary sources. The record links 10 actors, 2 payloads, 1 region, and 2 cited sources. Tracked actors include Intuitive Machines, NASA, NASA, Intuitive Machines, and others. Payloads include Lunar Vertex investigation plus ESA and KASI payloads, studies magnetic lunar swirls. Target region: Reiner Gamma lunar swirl. Live funding overlay: $77.5M in reported awards across 1 record, 1 with a SAM.gov-verified recipient (as of 2026-06-14); IDIQ ceilings are flagged as not mission spend. Catalog figures come from public sources, not predictions or live scraping, accessed through 2026-06-09.
2026 / 2026 / targeted this year
Moon Base III / Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Trinity
Notes
Same mission family as CP-11; row uses NASA's Moon Base III naming.
Live funding
moonopps-statusOverlaid live from the moat (the curated record above is unchanged). Verified funding requires a SAM.gov-confirmed recipient UEI; everything else reads as reported, not confirmed spend.
IM-3 CLPS task order CP-11 - announced value
Intuitive Machines, LLC / as of 2026-06-14
Actors by role
contractor
customer
operator
Payloads by type
instrument
Lunar Vertex investigation plus ESA and KASI payloads
studies magnetic lunar swirls
Regions
Sources
Publisher
NASA
Source date
2026-06-09
Accessed
2026-06-09
Updated
Not specified
Publisher
NASA Science
Source date
2026-05-06
Accessed
2026-06-09
Updated
Not specified