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Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Odysseus · landed

Launch: 2024-02-15. Landing: 2024-02-22.

The lander tipped at touchdown and worked for about a week. RFMG worked inside the lander's propulsion system; NASA counts it among its six payloads. NASA's press kit gives six payloads from other customers. Two are left out as art or archives: Jeff Koons' Moon Phases, and the Lunaprise capsule with the Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library (per Wikipedia).

Wikipedia: IM-1.

Payload Kind FO Earlier flights On the Moon
Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS 1.0) NASA payload none none found partly operated
Radio-wave Observations at the Lunar Surface of the Photoelectron Sheath (ROLSES) NASA payload none none found partly operated
Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing (NDL) NASA payload tested Earth orbit or deep space, FO, NASA test vehicle, aircraft (not FO) operated as planned
Lunar Node 1 Navigation Demonstrator (LN-1) NASA payload none ISS or MISSE, aircraft (not FO) partly operated
Radio Frequency Mass Gauge (RFMG) NASA payload tested FO, ISS or MISSE operated as planned
Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) NASA payload none Earth orbit or deep space, earlier lunar mission no data: lander failure
ILO-X imagers commercial payload none none found partly operated
EagleCam commercial payload none ISS or MISSE, aircraft (not FO), other, sounding rocket or balloon (not FO) partly operated
Omni-Heat thermal insulation (Columbia Sportswear) commercial payload none none found operated as planned
Independence (Lonestar lunar data center test) commercial payload none ISS or MISSE operated as planned