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.

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2026 / 2026 / targeted this year

Moon Base III / Intuitive Machines IM-3 Nova-C Trinity

High

Notes

Same mission family as CP-11; row uses NASA's Moon Base III naming.

Live funding

moonopps-status

Overlaid 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

$77.5M announced

Intuitive Machines, LLC / as of 2026-06-14

✓ SAM-verified/ CAGE 6U6Q8 SAM source ↗ award source ↗

Actors by role

Payloads by type

instrument

Lunar Vertex investigation plus ESA and KASI payloads

Lunar Vertex investigation plus ESA and KASI payloads

studies magnetic lunar swirls

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