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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Nova-C IM-2 & Others

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Mission brief

The flight at a glance.

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1), which is to be the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Moon. PRIME-1 consists of two instruments: TRIDENT drill and Msolo mass spectrometer. Also on board are: * Lunar Trailblazer, a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. Its mission is to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. * Odin, a spacecraft for AstroForge, a company that plans to mine asteroid resources. Odin intends to head into deep space to observe near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5 in preparation for their first retrieval mission. Odin will fly by the asteroid at a distance of about 1 kilometer, arriving 11 months after launch. * CHIMERA GEO 1, a transfer spacecraft by Epic Aerospace to a geostationary orbit, with the aim of covering an orbital position. For this launch, CHIMERA-GEO is carrying an unidentified 16U cubesat manifested by Exolaunch.

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Published flight sequence

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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.

  1. T−00:38:00

    GO for Prop Load

  2. T−00:35:00

    Prop Load

  3. T−00:35:00

    Stage 1 LOX Load

  4. T−00:16:00

    Stage 2 LOX Load

  5. T−00:07:00

    Engine Chill

  6. T−00:01:00

    Startup

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  1. T−00:01:00

    Tank Press

  2. T−00:00:45

    GO for Launch

  3. T−00:00:03

    Ignition

  4. T+00:00:00

    Liftoff

  5. T+00:01:18

    Max-Q

  6. T+00:02:30

    MECO

  7. T+00:02:34

    Stage 2 Separation

  8. T+00:02:42

    SES-1

  9. T+00:03:27

    Fairing Separation

  10. T+00:06:15

    Entry Burn Startup

  11. T+00:06:41

    Entry Burn Shutdown

  12. T+00:07:55

    SECO-1

  13. T+00:08:01

    Stage 1 Landing Burn

  14. T+00:08:31

    Stage 1 Landing

  15. T+00:36:25

    SES-2

  16. T+00:37:26

    SECO-2

  17. T+00:43:38

    Payload Separation

  18. T+00:47:28

    Payload Separation

  19. T+00:47:48

    Payload Separation

  20. T+00:48:08

    Payload Separation