{"id":71543,"date":"2025-08-10T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71543\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:11:09","slug":"intuitive-machines-to-build-its-own-lunar-communications-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71543\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Machines to build its own lunar communications satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Intuitive Machines has decided to bring in-house the production of satellites for a cislunar communications system, giving the company more schedule control and the ability to pursue other satellite opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/>3 free articles every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Get unlimited access to<br \/>SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:16px\">As low as $5 per week*<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jeff_foust-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor\u2019s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/jeff-foust\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jeff Foust\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Intuitive Machines has decided to bring in-house the production of satellites for a cislunar communications system,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[51427,51428,79,35225,722,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-71543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-intuitive-machines","9":"tag-kinetx","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-small-satellite-conference","12":"tag-sn","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}