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Commercial Data Center is Ready For the Moon

Intuitive Machines and Lonestar Complete Final "Freedom" Payload Installation and Testing

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Tom Patton
Feb 12, 2025
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The next Lonestar Lunar Data Center, 'Freedom', has completed testing and integration into Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission lander, named Athena, and has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In coordination with SpaceX, the liftoff of the IM-2 lunar mission is targeted for a multi-day launch window that opens no earlier than February 26, 2025. In c…

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