NASA Transfers Management of Lunar Science Instruments

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/05/18/nasa-transfers-management-of-lunar-science-instruments/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202620 NASA has transferred management of two lunar science instruments to Intuitive Machines, due to the instruments’ principal investigators and science team members joining the company. Intuitive Machines now manages the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and ShadowCam, a NASA instrument on South Korea’s Danuri orbiter, also known as Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO).