NASDAQ:LUNR Intuitive Machines Q1 2024 Earnings Report $11.22 +0.01 (+0.09%) Closing price 06/11/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$11.14 -0.08 (-0.67%) As of 04:10 AM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Intuitive Machines EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.21Consensus EPS -$0.14Beat/MissMissed by -$0.07One Year Ago EPS-$0.24Intuitive Machines Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$73.07 millionExpected Revenue$45.00 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$28.07 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AIntuitive Machines Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date5/14/2024TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateTuesday, May 14, 2024Conference Call Time8:30AM ETUpcoming EarningsIntuitive Machines' Q2 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 8:30 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Intuitive Machines Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 14, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 10 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Now, I would like to hand the conference over to your host, Stephen Channel, Head of Investor Relations. Operator00:00:09Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:00:13Good morning. Welcome to the Intuitive Machines' Q1 2024 Earnings Call. Chief Executive Officer, Steve Altomis and Interim Chief Financial Officer and Controller, Steve Bonteur, are leading the call today. Before we begin, please note that some of the information discussed during today's call will consist of forward looking statements setting forth our current expectations with respect to the future of our business, the economy and other events. The company's actual results could differ materially from those indicated in any forward looking statements due to many factors. Speaker 100:00:52These factors are described under forward looking statements in the company's earnings release and the company's most recent 10 ks and 10 Q filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward looking statements. We also expect to discuss certain financial measures and information that are non GAAP measures as defined in the applicable SEC rules and regulations. Reconciliations to the company's GAAP measures are included in the earnings release filed on Form 8 ks. Finally, we posted an earnings call presentation on our website, which provides additional context on our operational and financial performance. Speaker 100:01:35You can find this presentation on our Investor Relations page at www.intuitivemachines.com/investors. Now I'll turn the call over to Steve Altomis. Speaker 200:01:51Thanks, Stephen. We had an excellent start to the year, anchored by our successful IM1 mission and a full quarter of OMS III operations. Revenue was $73,100,000 in the quarter, an increase of over 300% versus quarter 1 of last year. This was yet another historic feat for the company and showcased our continued growth trajectory. The standout accomplishment in the Q1 was Intuitive Machines' 1st successful lunar mission, which fundamentally disrupted the economics of landing on the moon and broke economic and technological barriers to enable this new burgeoning lunar economy. Speaker 200:02:35Thank you to the Intuitives Machines team for their execution during this quarter and willingness to challenge traditional paradigms of exploration. Intuitive Machines efforts and successes do not stand alone. On May 3, China launched Chang'e-six to the far side of the moon on their way to potentially being the 1st nation to return samples from the far side. The steady drumbeat of China's success demonstrates the strategic importance of the moon and we hope is a call to action for the U. S. Speaker 200:03:08Government and the public of what Intuitive Machines is building and the importance of stable funding and commercial utilization. We are at the forefront of this new space race and committed to our position as a national asset supporting the global endeavors in space. In this rapidly evolving landscape, technological advancement is paramount. We believe Intuitive Machines is standing at the forefront of this imperative. The success of our complete lunar program in the Q1 showcased the commercial viability and agility required to put the industry firmly in the space race with the company standing as a first mover in this effort. Speaker 200:03:54In the weeks following our lunar landing, we assessed how our 4 year investment in technology development performed. Our team at Attuta Machines completed a comprehensive review of vehicle and mission operations and systems performance. While successful in our first landing and customer data delivery, we continue to strive for perfection in navigating to pinpoint landing accuracy on the surface with our autonomous precision landing and hazard avoidance technology. Each mission exercises and refines a complex set of algorithms that makes such autonomy possible in the harshest environments of the moon, namely the South Pole. The review resulted in software and hardware advancements that we believe expand our technical capability to track our vehicle accurately in space and land with 20 times better precision on our next mission. Speaker 200:04:50In addition, we reviewed our lunar distance RF communications and orbit determination capabilities and found several technical adjustments we expect will improve mission performance and best position the company to provide lunar communications services in support of future human missions. The technical improvements for IM2 are vertically integrated capabilities within the company that we can perform with little to no impact on our intended quarter 4, 2024 launch date or require any additional capital investment while we continue assembly of the flight vehicle. At its core, this comprehensive review confirmed that the technology we developed to provide lunar access and lunar data services is robust and we are capable of making agile adjustments that improve our customer experience on the Lunar surface. This tech capability expansion in autonomous vehicle operations, precision landing and navigation is focused on the goal of adding command control communications and surface operations to our current lunar access services in a sustainable way. Beyond our first of 3 planned lunar missions, the April 3 announcement of Intuitive Machines' Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services Award moves us beyond the delivery of science and discovery payloads and onto heavier cargo delivery and surface systems development and operations. Speaker 200:06:24The LTV delivery system, the rover design itself and both the autonomous and crude operations represent the first critical piece of infrastructure for the Artemis campaign. The Lunar Terrain Vehicle contract has a total program value of over $4,600,000,000 and is structured across multiple phased awards. In the first phase, starting in the days following Q1, the Intuitive Machines led Moonracer team will take the next year to create a preliminary design for delivery, deployment and autonomous operations of the LTV. The second phase, which we expect to be awarded in mid-twenty 25, calls for the vehicle's delivery and deployment demonstration. If awarded the 2nd phase Intuitive Machines' current Lunar Production and Operations Center in Houston will be the epicenter for the design, development, manufacturing, assembly and tests of the larger cargo lander and the LTV surface vehicle itself as the program matures. Speaker 200:07:32It's important to note, the company's cargo class lander uses the same core technologies as our smaller Nova C Lander and the LTV Services project allows for NASA and commercial service operations led by Intuitive Machines. Beyond the initial demonstration, another phase of the contract will move into continuous operations on the lunar surface over a multi year performance period. For Intuitive Machines, the next critical chess piece in laying the foundation for a cislunar economy is in the command and control and communications infrastructure in and around the moon. Every commercial, government or international mission to the moon requires a very high degree of autonomy. Autonomous operations with reliable command and control communications are essential for the expansion of this lunar economy. Speaker 200:08:27Intuitive Machines' technological advancements in autonomous vehicle operations and precision navigation will be the backbone of its command and control system. These core technologies are applied to our lunar communication satellites currently in production and Intuitive Machines is eagerly anticipating announcement of a significant NASA award for communications data relay services and position navigation and timing services. We are expecting this contract award announcement in the Q2. Earlier, I mentioned that we broke economic and technical barriers that enable cislunar expansion. I believe we are progressing with the necessary investments in technologies to demonstrate the same unprecedented economics deeper into the solar system. Speaker 200:09:17Already we are seeing the United States government and NASA increase their reliance on procuring commercially provided systems and services. The ability of the U. S. To leverage the ingenuity and innovation of its economic and technical industrial base to break the price barriers of traditional aerospace systems speaks to the difference in the overall U. S. Speaker 200:09:37Strategy for cislunar expansion and possibly the most powerful competitive advantage for the U. S. In this global space race. During our last call, we mentioned NASA's 2024 budget reduction, noting that much of the $2,000,000,000 shortfall came from the Mars Sample Return Program. Since that update, the agency has sought innovative commercial designs to disrupt the cost of delivering Mars samples back to earth. Speaker 200:10:05Intuitive Machines has engaged the agency and intends to provide a solution set based on technology architecture we have been developing for lunar material return. Finally, we continue to make progress towards our IM2 mission that we expect to launch later this year through our South Pole landing site, potentially becoming the 1st company to land on the moon twice in 1 year. We anticipate our 3rd mission in 2025 with the final landing date still in discussions with NASA. We now have more certainty about NASA's Q2 2024 award of the next CLPS mission, CP22, that calls for launch in the 20 27 timeframe. This shift in mission timing creates an opportunity for Intuitive Machines to insert its first fully commercial mission after IM3 as its 4th mission to the move. Speaker 200:11:03With the success of Q1 and the execution of our business plan and now the stability recognized through our pending proposal awards, Intuitive Machines is prepared to issue full year revenue guidance for 2024. Steve Vontore will go through the details of the guidance. I am pleased to report on the tremendous growth and maturity we have seen over this quarter and I'm excited about what the balance of this year holds for Intuitive Machines. With that, I'll turn the call over to Intuitive Machines' Interim Chief Financial Officer, Steve Vontore. Speaker 300:11:37Thank you, Steve, and thanks to everyone joining us today. I'll begin by going through our Q1 2024 results, followed by a few comments on our liquidity backlog and 2024 revenue guidance. Revenue accelerated in the quarter and was $73,100,000 compared to $18,200,000 in the Q1 of 2023, driven primarily by our 1st full quarter of OHMS-three revenues of just over $40,000,000 and rounded out with revenue from our 3 NASA clips and related mission payloads. We had a couple of one time revenue impacts in the quarter. First, we had about $12,000,000 related to the I'm 1 mission success milestones. Speaker 300:12:17We also recorded an additional $5,600,000 of revenue combined on the IM2 and IM3 CLIFFS task orders relating to contract modifications as we work with NASA to finalize updates to mission timing, payloads and landing sites for the remaining 2 missions. As mentioned earlier by Steve, we expect the IM2 mission to launch in late 2024 and IM3 sometimes in 2025. Gross margin continued to improve versus prior quarters and was a positive $12,200,000 this quarter, driven primarily by the IM-one mission success milestones and modifications on the other two missions as well as the OMS-three activity. Operating loss for this quarter was $5,400,000 versus $14,000,000 in the Q1 of 2023. The lower operating loss in the quarter was again driven primarily by the items noted above and were partially offset by higher G and A. Speaker 300:13:15SG and A ran higher in Q1 2024 and was primarily driven by incentive comp and overall headcount increases, including higher noncash equity awards that did not exist in the Q1 of the last year. In addition, we saw increases in other expenses such as accounting and legal professional fees, business proposal expenses and rent on the new corporate headquarters as we continue to support the company's rapid growth. Included in the quarter were one time charges totaling approximately $5,700,000 On the cash side, we ended Q1 with a balance of $55,200,000 driven primarily by the $50,600,000 in proceeds from warrant exercises. This is the strongest quarter and cash position ever and reflects our continued focus on working capital management coupled with capital conservation and liquidity. We continue to believe that our Q1 ending cash balance is sufficient to fund operations through the end of the year. Speaker 300:14:11In addition, we expect to add cash reserves throughout the remainder of the year as we execute on planned operations and continue to win new business. As we previously stated, we will continue to be opportunistic in the capital markets for defensive capital and to further strengthen our balance sheet. Operating cash used was $6,400,000 in the quarter with capital expenditures of $1,600,000 resulting in free cash flow for the quarter of an outflow of $8,000,000 which reflects the lowest quarter cash burn since going public. We continue to strive towards free cash flow breakeven as we remain disciplined with expenditures while prioritizing a higher margin business. We ended the Q1 with contracted backlog of $222,300,000 an expected decline of about $46,300,000 as we executed on our Cliffs and OMS contracts. Speaker 300:15:00We expect backlog to grow during the remainder of the year driven by key program awards including LTV and the next OMS 3 task quarters, coupled with new award decisions, including NSNS and CP22. Moving on to our outlook for the year. As Steve said, we had a great start with record revenues in the quarter. The recent LTPS award and the solid opportunities expected to be awarded in the next couple of quarters gives us confidence in providing a 2024 revenue outlook of between $200,000,000 $240,000,000 representing an increase of 2.5x to 3.0x prior year revenues. Overall, this was a record quarter both financially and operationally for Intuitive Machines. Speaker 300:15:48This strength gives us confidence to provide an expanded revenue outlook for the year, which showcases the company's tremendous opportunity for continued growth. We look forward to executing on this growth throughout the year. With that, operator, we are now ready for the questions. Operator00:16:05Thank you, sir. The first question comes from the line of Suji Desilva with ROTH M. K. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:16:21Hi, Steve. Congrats on the progress here. And talking about the guidance for 2024, the backlog, I'm curious what the period covered there and how much of that covers your 2024 new guidance of 200,000,000 to 240,000,000 Speaker 300:16:39dollars Suji, thanks. For the backlog component, we have about 80% of our backlog sitting right now at about $222,000,000 We believe about 80% of that backlog will be burned through the remainder of the year. Speaker 400:17:00Okay. That's great. And then additionally, with that guidance for 2024, are you assuming new contract wins in that guidance or would that is it supported by existing wins and would any additional wins be upside to the 2024 guidance? Speaker 200:17:17Yes. Hey there, Suji. The way we look at that is we probability weight the awards that we have in pending. So what that includes in the lower end of the guidance is the MOD submission 2 that we're negotiating with NASA. But there's upside that takes us to the higher end of the range and maybe beyond with a mod to IM3 on the negotiated landing time, the NSNS award, the next CLPS award and then an IM2 success payment. Speaker 200:17:52So all of those are probability weighted and that's what gives us the range that we Steve described. Speaker 400:18:00Okay. Appreciate the effort there. And then lastly, first time you guys mentioned potentially all commercial mission inserted between, I guess, IM3, IM4. I'm wondering if that would, Steve, in concept have an anchor customer with some ancillaries or whether it would be equally kind of portioned out in the payloads across sort of a series of customers? What the general direction of that will be? Speaker 200:18:25Yes. Right now, we're aggregating a set of payloads, waiting to get essentially critical manifest where we can go forward with the purchase of a booster. And so those payloads come in fairly evenly sized and occasionally we'll get one that's a little bit larger. And in this case, that's what we're negotiating. That gets us to the point where we can actually declare we have this commercial mission. Speaker 200:18:54So it'll be kind of a mix to not answer your question directly, but it's kind of a mix as we go forward from smaller to medium to maybe a large payload and that will round out the complement. Speaker 400:19:10That sounded fairly even. Thanks, Steve. Thanks, guys. Operator00:19:15Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Josh Sullivan with The Benchmark Company. Please go ahead. Speaker 200:19:23Hey, good morning. Good morning, Josh. Speaker 500:19:28As far as the cash burn here, down substantially year over year, but what are the big draws in the year end? Speaker 200:19:38I missed the last part, Josh, the big draws. Speaker 500:19:41I'm just trying to understand cash burns down here. You're stating that you think you have a good cash balance here Speaker 400:19:49to get you through the end Speaker 500:19:50of the year. I'm just curious what are the large tentpoles for cash burn as we work into the end of the year? Speaker 200:19:58Yes, we run the indirect support at about $3,300,000 a month is our indirect burn. And as part of cost of goods sold, the biggest payments or drawdown would be the booster payments for each of our missions. We have booster payments for IM2 and IM3 on the books for this year. And so I'd say those are the biggest ones that we have as accounts payable. Got it. Speaker 200:20:27And then in Speaker 500:20:28your comments there, you mentioned the Chinese lunar mission, you have the Indians looking at their own sample return here. What's your view of that strategic tempo or that conversation in the U. S. As other nations ramp up their lunar ambitions? Is it picking up these missions viewed as competition or is NASA really moving at their own pace? Speaker 200:20:50Well, I think we're fortunate, as I said, it's the U. S. Economy where we have NASA has or the U. S. Government has kind of sparked the U. Speaker 200:21:00S. Commercial economy to break the price power of what it takes to go to the moon. And if we can install an annual cadence of missions to the moon, we will while it feels like we might be behind and that we don't aren't flying as frequently or as complex missions as China maybe at this point, we'll catch up quickly as we have many more shots on goal. So I think the CLPS program in particular lends itself to building a bigger supply chain and base for us to commercialize the moon. While the heavy lift activity is occurring, which is of strategic interest, and heavy lift SLS and might be moving to the right, Cliffs can fill in with cargo missions to put the critical elements on the surface ahead of the humans. Speaker 200:21:55And I think that's where NASA is going and where the government is going. And we're happy to provide that service for them. Speaker 500:22:03Great. Thank you for the time. Speaker 200:22:05Thanks, Josh. Operator00:22:07Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Andres Sheppard with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead. Speaker 600:22:17Hey, everyone. Good morning. Congratulations on the quarter. Thanks for taking our questions. I wanted to maybe ask, how should we be thinking about margins for the I'm Mission 2 and also maybe for the OMS contracts? Speaker 600:22:36Just curious if you can maybe point out or give some color there as to kind of what kind of margins might you expect? Thank you. Speaker 300:22:46Well, Andre, thanks for the question. So as we've reported historically, IM2 and IM3 emissions are loss projects or close to breakeven. So as we work the rest of that those operations off of those contracts, we won't have any margin on that. Homes margin is running the 5% range on a consolidated basis. So again, don't expect any future losses on the IM2 or 3 contracts, but we may have some bumps to that with the final success fees, successful MOSSA fees like we had in IM1 once we land. Speaker 600:23:38Got it. That's super helpful. Appreciate that. And maybe just a quick follow-up. As it pertains to the lunar terrain vehicle contract, can you just remind us what are maybe the next catalyst there? Speaker 600:23:56And I guess is that program is the expectation that it's going to get narrowed from the 3 companies that have bid to either 1 or 2? Just trying to understand how you might see that one playing out. Thank you. Speaker 200:24:11Yes. We have a period of about a year, 12 month period, 10 to 12 month period to do the preliminary design of the delivery system and the LTV, as I stated. There's 3 companies that are doing that over the next year, roughly on the order of a $30,000,000 task order, we expect later this month issued by NASA to kick that off. But then what will happen is there'll be NAST has indicated that, that could be multiple award, NAST has indicated that that could be multiple award. Right now, they're thinking possibly 1, maybe 2 out of the 3 companies would go forward with that demonstration. Speaker 200:25:01However, let me point out that that's a $4,600,000,000 contract over 15 years and it's written so broadly that there are a number of services that can be purchased under that multi award IDIQ contract. And those services could include things like data sales or communications that go with and complement the LTV itself and the demonstration. So the bigger task order though is that one that's issued mid-twenty 25 next year and we compete for the demonstration. Speaker 600:25:34Got it. Thanks, Steve. That's very helpful very exciting. Congrats again on the quarter. I'll pass it on. Speaker 600:25:40Thank you. Speaker 200:25:41Thanks, Andrew. Operator00:25:44Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Griffin Bosch with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 700:25:51Hi, good morning and thanks for taking my questions. I'll start on LTV. Can you talk more broadly about what NASA potentially will require from the LTV in terms of capacity or how much time NASA expects to utilize these LTVs and then in turn the possible leftover availability to leverage for commercial use cases? And then related to that, if you've received any initial interest already from potential commercial customers looking to use any excess capacity for the LTV? Speaker 200:26:27Well, yes, NASA kind of plans to use the mission for both autonomous science and discovery where they fly in science payloads to use the LTV mobility capability to gather the necessary science as well as use it for astronauts when they're there present on the surface, moving around cargo and logistics and collecting geological samples and things like that. So there is a plan. I think the overarching plan ranges from about 6 to 7 months a year of NASA use and 5 to 6 months of commercial use, which is quite exciting that, in this case Intuita Machines would own the infrastructure and be able to operate the infrastructure while NASS is not there. That's quite unique in terms of the contract and the service that we provide. We have had interest for individuals or companies that want to do excavating and mining and harvesting of materials on the surface and cashing those materials for later return to earth. Speaker 200:27:38So that's quite interesting. And there was a number of in our commercialization plan that we submitted to NASA, there were a number of letters of interest from companies. I think we had on the order of 10 companies interested in using the LTV, Operator00:27:54should we Speaker 200:27:54be awarded the contract. So quite a bit of interest and I think as we move forward and it gets more attention, that interest will only grow. Speaker 700:28:05Got it. Great. Thanks for the color there, Steve. And then more broadly, there's a lot of talk about SpaceX's Starship for various reasons, obviously. But I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on what a successful operational Starship could mean for the future of lunar transport in general and maybe for Intuitive specifically? Speaker 200:28:28Yes. As I mentioned in a previous question, I think what's of strategic importance to the United States is the heavy lift capability. And whether that heavy lift comes in the version of the Space Launch System or the Starship, it will be a critical component to sustain human presence on the moon. What's nice though is that intuitive machines is complementary to Starship and Starship while it has a very heavy cargo and a way to aggregate multiple mission elements on a single mission to the moon, we'll have regular cargo deliveries of smaller sizes to the moon and in various locations around the moon that will keep the cadence of missions up and will be enough to really feed a community of smaller delivery service companies that will be put in cargo and critical systems and satellites around the moon and on the moon. Operator00:29:34Okay. Excellent. And then just Speaker 700:29:35if I could sneak one more in there. Without putting words in your mouth, Steve, you talked about the first potential fully commercial mission after IM3. You said you were aggregating payloads. Would it be right to assume then that you're seeing enough demand today to fulfill a fully commercial mission? Or are you expecting to get whatever incremental demand that would warrant a fully commercial mission within the next 2 years? Speaker 200:30:09We have signed contracts with multiple payloads that we've been aggregating and holding for this commercial mission. And as those come in and as we negotiate those contracts, we get to a point where we have enough to declare a mission. And those negotiations are signed contracts and negotiations underway that give us the opportunity to declare a commercial mission today. We expect more coming in over the next 2 years. And this gap between the last competed clips mission and CP22, which is the next one, is that 2 year gap that we want to fill so that we maintain this cadence of missions going to the moon. Speaker 200:30:53So we see a lot of commercial interest and international interest in terms of signed contracts to fly to the moon and we see that growing continually over the next couple of years. Speaker 700:31:06Excellent. Great. I appreciate you taking my questions. Thanks everyone. Speaker 600:31:09Thanks, Clifford. Operator00:31:12Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Austin Moeller with Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead. Speaker 800:31:20Hi, good morning. Nice quarter. Just my first question here, are all the ESPA ring slots on IM2 and IM3 currently occupied? And if not, are you still seeking payloads to put on there before integration? Speaker 200:31:36So all of the slots good question, Austin. Good to hear from you. All of the slots on IM2 are filled and we're at max capacity and sold out. We still have some availability on an Esterin slot on IM3 that we're talking with payloads potential payload customers to fill that slot prior to that mission. Speaker 800:32:02Great. And just a follow-up, what's currently the status of the first con relay satellite that was supposed to be riding aboard IM2, how should we be thinking about that? Speaker 200:32:16So what we've done is we've combined we've went back and looked at that in anticipation of an NS award, which I mentioned should be coming out in the Q2. Or hopefully, we're awarded that mission. We've built out a much better capability on Khan-two or our second communications satellite and found that the first satellite wasn't compliant with the requirements that NASA we anticipate coming out of NASA. So we built a better or are building a better bus and comm relay on Khan 2, our second satellite, and we'll fly that on IM3. Speaker 800:33:01Excellent. Thanks for the details. Speaker 200:33:04Thanks, Austin. Operator00:33:08Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Edison Yu with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Speaker 900:33:16Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking our questions. What on the geopolitical angle, how do you think this aspect is sort of playing out, especially with the DoD's view on the system or economy at the moment? Speaker 200:33:33I missed the last part, Edison, you failed off there. The DoD's interest in this space race, Is that your comment? Speaker 900:33:43The cis lunar economy. Speaker 200:33:46Okay. Yes. Well, I think there's some as stated by a number of the DoD leadership that there's a lot of interest in what's going on in GEO and ex GEO and that maintains their focus and priority at this point. And I think as the traffic model increases in and around the moon, that will then gain some priority. But they're going to need to see more than 1 or 2 missions to the moon a year before they'll be able to reallocate budgets towards this lunar economy. Speaker 200:34:25So we're seeing that Space Force appetite for cislunar capabilities slowly growing over the next couple of years. And then as the traffic like I said, as the traffic model increases, that appetite for additional information and space traffic management and space domain awareness will increase. Speaker 900:34:49Understood. And just kind of more longer term and broader question on LTV, how do we think this sort of fits into the company's overall vision strategy when we couple that with the upcoming NSN as in as CP22 awards? Speaker 200:35:08So I think with respect to LTV, it's part of the strategy to if I think about it, delivery to be able to take things to the surface, to be able to communicate essentially command and control communications around the moon is of critical interest, including navigation. And then the ability to do extreme mobility. And LTV gives you that. And because we can then move around the surface, we can begin to build infrastructure that supports sustained human presence on the moon. And so our company is built an ecosystem of capability in and around the moon. Speaker 200:35:48And in terms of delivery, command and control, communications and extreme ability. And that's how that all fits together. And we're anxiously awaiting, like I said, that last chess piece in the NSNS contract to be able to deploy our data relay satellites and provide that service back to the government for communications around the move. Speaker 900:36:12Great. Thank you. Speaker 200:36:14Thank you, Anderson. Operator00:36:17Thank you. There are no further questions. I would like to hand the floor back to Intuitive Machine's CEO, Steve Altimus for closing remarks. Speaker 200:36:27Well, thank you everybody for attending and joining us today on the call. As you heard, we've had a historic Q1 both operationally and financially, and we expect to build on that momentum throughout the year. I look forward to talking to you in the future. Thank you.Read morePowered by Key Takeaways Intuitive Machines reported Q1 revenue of $73.1 million, up over 300% year-over-year, driven by the successful IM1 lunar mission and a full quarter of OMS III operations. The first commercial lunar landing (IM1) disrupted mission economics and, after a 4-year technology review, yielded software and hardware upgrades expected to deliver 20× improvement in precision landing accuracy on the next mission. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a $4.6 billion Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract, beginning with a 12-month preliminary design phase and potential mid-2025 demonstration of a cargo lander and lunar rover. As of quarter-end, cash stood at $55.2 million (boosted by warrant exercises), with a contracted backlog of $222.3 million, and the company issued 2024 revenue guidance of $200 million – $240 million. 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Email Address About Intuitive MachinesIntuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) designs, manufactures, and operates space products and services in the United States. Its space systems and space infrastructure enable scientific and human exploration and utilization of lunar resources to support sustainable human presence on the moon. The company offers lunar access services, such µNova, lunar surface rover services, fixed lunar surface services, lunar orbit delivery services, rideshare delivery services to lunar orbit, as well as content sales and marketing sponsorships; and orbital services, including satellite delivery and rideshare, satellite servicing and refueling, space station servicing, satellite repositioning, and orbital debris removal. It also provides lunar data services, comprising Lunar data network, lunar south pole and far-side coverage, lunar positioning services, data relay, and data storage/caching. In addition, the company offers propulsion systems and navigation systems; engineering services contracts; lunar mobility vehicles, such as rovers and drones; power infrastructure that includes fission surface power; and human habitation systems. It serves its products to the U.S. government, commercial, and international customers. 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There are 10 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Now, I would like to hand the conference over to your host, Stephen Channel, Head of Investor Relations. Operator00:00:09Please go ahead, sir. Speaker 100:00:13Good morning. Welcome to the Intuitive Machines' Q1 2024 Earnings Call. Chief Executive Officer, Steve Altomis and Interim Chief Financial Officer and Controller, Steve Bonteur, are leading the call today. Before we begin, please note that some of the information discussed during today's call will consist of forward looking statements setting forth our current expectations with respect to the future of our business, the economy and other events. The company's actual results could differ materially from those indicated in any forward looking statements due to many factors. Speaker 100:00:52These factors are described under forward looking statements in the company's earnings release and the company's most recent 10 ks and 10 Q filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward looking statements. We also expect to discuss certain financial measures and information that are non GAAP measures as defined in the applicable SEC rules and regulations. Reconciliations to the company's GAAP measures are included in the earnings release filed on Form 8 ks. Finally, we posted an earnings call presentation on our website, which provides additional context on our operational and financial performance. Speaker 100:01:35You can find this presentation on our Investor Relations page at www.intuitivemachines.com/investors. Now I'll turn the call over to Steve Altomis. Speaker 200:01:51Thanks, Stephen. We had an excellent start to the year, anchored by our successful IM1 mission and a full quarter of OMS III operations. Revenue was $73,100,000 in the quarter, an increase of over 300% versus quarter 1 of last year. This was yet another historic feat for the company and showcased our continued growth trajectory. The standout accomplishment in the Q1 was Intuitive Machines' 1st successful lunar mission, which fundamentally disrupted the economics of landing on the moon and broke economic and technological barriers to enable this new burgeoning lunar economy. Speaker 200:02:35Thank you to the Intuitives Machines team for their execution during this quarter and willingness to challenge traditional paradigms of exploration. Intuitive Machines efforts and successes do not stand alone. On May 3, China launched Chang'e-six to the far side of the moon on their way to potentially being the 1st nation to return samples from the far side. The steady drumbeat of China's success demonstrates the strategic importance of the moon and we hope is a call to action for the U. S. Speaker 200:03:08Government and the public of what Intuitive Machines is building and the importance of stable funding and commercial utilization. We are at the forefront of this new space race and committed to our position as a national asset supporting the global endeavors in space. In this rapidly evolving landscape, technological advancement is paramount. We believe Intuitive Machines is standing at the forefront of this imperative. The success of our complete lunar program in the Q1 showcased the commercial viability and agility required to put the industry firmly in the space race with the company standing as a first mover in this effort. Speaker 200:03:54In the weeks following our lunar landing, we assessed how our 4 year investment in technology development performed. Our team at Attuta Machines completed a comprehensive review of vehicle and mission operations and systems performance. While successful in our first landing and customer data delivery, we continue to strive for perfection in navigating to pinpoint landing accuracy on the surface with our autonomous precision landing and hazard avoidance technology. Each mission exercises and refines a complex set of algorithms that makes such autonomy possible in the harshest environments of the moon, namely the South Pole. The review resulted in software and hardware advancements that we believe expand our technical capability to track our vehicle accurately in space and land with 20 times better precision on our next mission. Speaker 200:04:50In addition, we reviewed our lunar distance RF communications and orbit determination capabilities and found several technical adjustments we expect will improve mission performance and best position the company to provide lunar communications services in support of future human missions. The technical improvements for IM2 are vertically integrated capabilities within the company that we can perform with little to no impact on our intended quarter 4, 2024 launch date or require any additional capital investment while we continue assembly of the flight vehicle. At its core, this comprehensive review confirmed that the technology we developed to provide lunar access and lunar data services is robust and we are capable of making agile adjustments that improve our customer experience on the Lunar surface. This tech capability expansion in autonomous vehicle operations, precision landing and navigation is focused on the goal of adding command control communications and surface operations to our current lunar access services in a sustainable way. Beyond our first of 3 planned lunar missions, the April 3 announcement of Intuitive Machines' Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services Award moves us beyond the delivery of science and discovery payloads and onto heavier cargo delivery and surface systems development and operations. Speaker 200:06:24The LTV delivery system, the rover design itself and both the autonomous and crude operations represent the first critical piece of infrastructure for the Artemis campaign. The Lunar Terrain Vehicle contract has a total program value of over $4,600,000,000 and is structured across multiple phased awards. In the first phase, starting in the days following Q1, the Intuitive Machines led Moonracer team will take the next year to create a preliminary design for delivery, deployment and autonomous operations of the LTV. The second phase, which we expect to be awarded in mid-twenty 25, calls for the vehicle's delivery and deployment demonstration. If awarded the 2nd phase Intuitive Machines' current Lunar Production and Operations Center in Houston will be the epicenter for the design, development, manufacturing, assembly and tests of the larger cargo lander and the LTV surface vehicle itself as the program matures. Speaker 200:07:32It's important to note, the company's cargo class lander uses the same core technologies as our smaller Nova C Lander and the LTV Services project allows for NASA and commercial service operations led by Intuitive Machines. Beyond the initial demonstration, another phase of the contract will move into continuous operations on the lunar surface over a multi year performance period. For Intuitive Machines, the next critical chess piece in laying the foundation for a cislunar economy is in the command and control and communications infrastructure in and around the moon. Every commercial, government or international mission to the moon requires a very high degree of autonomy. Autonomous operations with reliable command and control communications are essential for the expansion of this lunar economy. Speaker 200:08:27Intuitive Machines' technological advancements in autonomous vehicle operations and precision navigation will be the backbone of its command and control system. These core technologies are applied to our lunar communication satellites currently in production and Intuitive Machines is eagerly anticipating announcement of a significant NASA award for communications data relay services and position navigation and timing services. We are expecting this contract award announcement in the Q2. Earlier, I mentioned that we broke economic and technical barriers that enable cislunar expansion. I believe we are progressing with the necessary investments in technologies to demonstrate the same unprecedented economics deeper into the solar system. Speaker 200:09:17Already we are seeing the United States government and NASA increase their reliance on procuring commercially provided systems and services. The ability of the U. S. To leverage the ingenuity and innovation of its economic and technical industrial base to break the price barriers of traditional aerospace systems speaks to the difference in the overall U. S. Speaker 200:09:37Strategy for cislunar expansion and possibly the most powerful competitive advantage for the U. S. In this global space race. During our last call, we mentioned NASA's 2024 budget reduction, noting that much of the $2,000,000,000 shortfall came from the Mars Sample Return Program. Since that update, the agency has sought innovative commercial designs to disrupt the cost of delivering Mars samples back to earth. Speaker 200:10:05Intuitive Machines has engaged the agency and intends to provide a solution set based on technology architecture we have been developing for lunar material return. Finally, we continue to make progress towards our IM2 mission that we expect to launch later this year through our South Pole landing site, potentially becoming the 1st company to land on the moon twice in 1 year. We anticipate our 3rd mission in 2025 with the final landing date still in discussions with NASA. We now have more certainty about NASA's Q2 2024 award of the next CLPS mission, CP22, that calls for launch in the 20 27 timeframe. This shift in mission timing creates an opportunity for Intuitive Machines to insert its first fully commercial mission after IM3 as its 4th mission to the move. Speaker 200:11:03With the success of Q1 and the execution of our business plan and now the stability recognized through our pending proposal awards, Intuitive Machines is prepared to issue full year revenue guidance for 2024. Steve Vontore will go through the details of the guidance. I am pleased to report on the tremendous growth and maturity we have seen over this quarter and I'm excited about what the balance of this year holds for Intuitive Machines. With that, I'll turn the call over to Intuitive Machines' Interim Chief Financial Officer, Steve Vontore. Speaker 300:11:37Thank you, Steve, and thanks to everyone joining us today. I'll begin by going through our Q1 2024 results, followed by a few comments on our liquidity backlog and 2024 revenue guidance. Revenue accelerated in the quarter and was $73,100,000 compared to $18,200,000 in the Q1 of 2023, driven primarily by our 1st full quarter of OHMS-three revenues of just over $40,000,000 and rounded out with revenue from our 3 NASA clips and related mission payloads. We had a couple of one time revenue impacts in the quarter. First, we had about $12,000,000 related to the I'm 1 mission success milestones. Speaker 300:12:17We also recorded an additional $5,600,000 of revenue combined on the IM2 and IM3 CLIFFS task orders relating to contract modifications as we work with NASA to finalize updates to mission timing, payloads and landing sites for the remaining 2 missions. As mentioned earlier by Steve, we expect the IM2 mission to launch in late 2024 and IM3 sometimes in 2025. Gross margin continued to improve versus prior quarters and was a positive $12,200,000 this quarter, driven primarily by the IM-one mission success milestones and modifications on the other two missions as well as the OMS-three activity. Operating loss for this quarter was $5,400,000 versus $14,000,000 in the Q1 of 2023. The lower operating loss in the quarter was again driven primarily by the items noted above and were partially offset by higher G and A. Speaker 300:13:15SG and A ran higher in Q1 2024 and was primarily driven by incentive comp and overall headcount increases, including higher noncash equity awards that did not exist in the Q1 of the last year. In addition, we saw increases in other expenses such as accounting and legal professional fees, business proposal expenses and rent on the new corporate headquarters as we continue to support the company's rapid growth. Included in the quarter were one time charges totaling approximately $5,700,000 On the cash side, we ended Q1 with a balance of $55,200,000 driven primarily by the $50,600,000 in proceeds from warrant exercises. This is the strongest quarter and cash position ever and reflects our continued focus on working capital management coupled with capital conservation and liquidity. We continue to believe that our Q1 ending cash balance is sufficient to fund operations through the end of the year. Speaker 300:14:11In addition, we expect to add cash reserves throughout the remainder of the year as we execute on planned operations and continue to win new business. As we previously stated, we will continue to be opportunistic in the capital markets for defensive capital and to further strengthen our balance sheet. Operating cash used was $6,400,000 in the quarter with capital expenditures of $1,600,000 resulting in free cash flow for the quarter of an outflow of $8,000,000 which reflects the lowest quarter cash burn since going public. We continue to strive towards free cash flow breakeven as we remain disciplined with expenditures while prioritizing a higher margin business. We ended the Q1 with contracted backlog of $222,300,000 an expected decline of about $46,300,000 as we executed on our Cliffs and OMS contracts. Speaker 300:15:00We expect backlog to grow during the remainder of the year driven by key program awards including LTV and the next OMS 3 task quarters, coupled with new award decisions, including NSNS and CP22. Moving on to our outlook for the year. As Steve said, we had a great start with record revenues in the quarter. The recent LTPS award and the solid opportunities expected to be awarded in the next couple of quarters gives us confidence in providing a 2024 revenue outlook of between $200,000,000 $240,000,000 representing an increase of 2.5x to 3.0x prior year revenues. Overall, this was a record quarter both financially and operationally for Intuitive Machines. Speaker 300:15:48This strength gives us confidence to provide an expanded revenue outlook for the year, which showcases the company's tremendous opportunity for continued growth. We look forward to executing on this growth throughout the year. With that, operator, we are now ready for the questions. Operator00:16:05Thank you, sir. The first question comes from the line of Suji Desilva with ROTH M. K. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:16:21Hi, Steve. Congrats on the progress here. And talking about the guidance for 2024, the backlog, I'm curious what the period covered there and how much of that covers your 2024 new guidance of 200,000,000 to 240,000,000 Speaker 300:16:39dollars Suji, thanks. For the backlog component, we have about 80% of our backlog sitting right now at about $222,000,000 We believe about 80% of that backlog will be burned through the remainder of the year. Speaker 400:17:00Okay. That's great. And then additionally, with that guidance for 2024, are you assuming new contract wins in that guidance or would that is it supported by existing wins and would any additional wins be upside to the 2024 guidance? Speaker 200:17:17Yes. Hey there, Suji. The way we look at that is we probability weight the awards that we have in pending. So what that includes in the lower end of the guidance is the MOD submission 2 that we're negotiating with NASA. But there's upside that takes us to the higher end of the range and maybe beyond with a mod to IM3 on the negotiated landing time, the NSNS award, the next CLPS award and then an IM2 success payment. Speaker 200:17:52So all of those are probability weighted and that's what gives us the range that we Steve described. Speaker 400:18:00Okay. Appreciate the effort there. And then lastly, first time you guys mentioned potentially all commercial mission inserted between, I guess, IM3, IM4. I'm wondering if that would, Steve, in concept have an anchor customer with some ancillaries or whether it would be equally kind of portioned out in the payloads across sort of a series of customers? What the general direction of that will be? Speaker 200:18:25Yes. Right now, we're aggregating a set of payloads, waiting to get essentially critical manifest where we can go forward with the purchase of a booster. And so those payloads come in fairly evenly sized and occasionally we'll get one that's a little bit larger. And in this case, that's what we're negotiating. That gets us to the point where we can actually declare we have this commercial mission. Speaker 200:18:54So it'll be kind of a mix to not answer your question directly, but it's kind of a mix as we go forward from smaller to medium to maybe a large payload and that will round out the complement. Speaker 400:19:10That sounded fairly even. Thanks, Steve. Thanks, guys. Operator00:19:15Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Josh Sullivan with The Benchmark Company. Please go ahead. Speaker 200:19:23Hey, good morning. Good morning, Josh. Speaker 500:19:28As far as the cash burn here, down substantially year over year, but what are the big draws in the year end? Speaker 200:19:38I missed the last part, Josh, the big draws. Speaker 500:19:41I'm just trying to understand cash burns down here. You're stating that you think you have a good cash balance here Speaker 400:19:49to get you through the end Speaker 500:19:50of the year. I'm just curious what are the large tentpoles for cash burn as we work into the end of the year? Speaker 200:19:58Yes, we run the indirect support at about $3,300,000 a month is our indirect burn. And as part of cost of goods sold, the biggest payments or drawdown would be the booster payments for each of our missions. We have booster payments for IM2 and IM3 on the books for this year. And so I'd say those are the biggest ones that we have as accounts payable. Got it. Speaker 200:20:27And then in Speaker 500:20:28your comments there, you mentioned the Chinese lunar mission, you have the Indians looking at their own sample return here. What's your view of that strategic tempo or that conversation in the U. S. As other nations ramp up their lunar ambitions? Is it picking up these missions viewed as competition or is NASA really moving at their own pace? Speaker 200:20:50Well, I think we're fortunate, as I said, it's the U. S. Economy where we have NASA has or the U. S. Government has kind of sparked the U. Speaker 200:21:00S. Commercial economy to break the price power of what it takes to go to the moon. And if we can install an annual cadence of missions to the moon, we will while it feels like we might be behind and that we don't aren't flying as frequently or as complex missions as China maybe at this point, we'll catch up quickly as we have many more shots on goal. So I think the CLPS program in particular lends itself to building a bigger supply chain and base for us to commercialize the moon. While the heavy lift activity is occurring, which is of strategic interest, and heavy lift SLS and might be moving to the right, Cliffs can fill in with cargo missions to put the critical elements on the surface ahead of the humans. Speaker 200:21:55And I think that's where NASA is going and where the government is going. And we're happy to provide that service for them. Speaker 500:22:03Great. Thank you for the time. Speaker 200:22:05Thanks, Josh. Operator00:22:07Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Andres Sheppard with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please go ahead. Speaker 600:22:17Hey, everyone. Good morning. Congratulations on the quarter. Thanks for taking our questions. I wanted to maybe ask, how should we be thinking about margins for the I'm Mission 2 and also maybe for the OMS contracts? Speaker 600:22:36Just curious if you can maybe point out or give some color there as to kind of what kind of margins might you expect? Thank you. Speaker 300:22:46Well, Andre, thanks for the question. So as we've reported historically, IM2 and IM3 emissions are loss projects or close to breakeven. So as we work the rest of that those operations off of those contracts, we won't have any margin on that. Homes margin is running the 5% range on a consolidated basis. So again, don't expect any future losses on the IM2 or 3 contracts, but we may have some bumps to that with the final success fees, successful MOSSA fees like we had in IM1 once we land. Speaker 600:23:38Got it. That's super helpful. Appreciate that. And maybe just a quick follow-up. As it pertains to the lunar terrain vehicle contract, can you just remind us what are maybe the next catalyst there? Speaker 600:23:56And I guess is that program is the expectation that it's going to get narrowed from the 3 companies that have bid to either 1 or 2? Just trying to understand how you might see that one playing out. Thank you. Speaker 200:24:11Yes. We have a period of about a year, 12 month period, 10 to 12 month period to do the preliminary design of the delivery system and the LTV, as I stated. There's 3 companies that are doing that over the next year, roughly on the order of a $30,000,000 task order, we expect later this month issued by NASA to kick that off. But then what will happen is there'll be NAST has indicated that, that could be multiple award, NAST has indicated that that could be multiple award. Right now, they're thinking possibly 1, maybe 2 out of the 3 companies would go forward with that demonstration. Speaker 200:25:01However, let me point out that that's a $4,600,000,000 contract over 15 years and it's written so broadly that there are a number of services that can be purchased under that multi award IDIQ contract. And those services could include things like data sales or communications that go with and complement the LTV itself and the demonstration. So the bigger task order though is that one that's issued mid-twenty 25 next year and we compete for the demonstration. Speaker 600:25:34Got it. Thanks, Steve. That's very helpful very exciting. Congrats again on the quarter. I'll pass it on. Speaker 600:25:40Thank you. Speaker 200:25:41Thanks, Andrew. Operator00:25:44Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Griffin Bosch with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead. Speaker 700:25:51Hi, good morning and thanks for taking my questions. I'll start on LTV. Can you talk more broadly about what NASA potentially will require from the LTV in terms of capacity or how much time NASA expects to utilize these LTVs and then in turn the possible leftover availability to leverage for commercial use cases? And then related to that, if you've received any initial interest already from potential commercial customers looking to use any excess capacity for the LTV? Speaker 200:26:27Well, yes, NASA kind of plans to use the mission for both autonomous science and discovery where they fly in science payloads to use the LTV mobility capability to gather the necessary science as well as use it for astronauts when they're there present on the surface, moving around cargo and logistics and collecting geological samples and things like that. So there is a plan. I think the overarching plan ranges from about 6 to 7 months a year of NASA use and 5 to 6 months of commercial use, which is quite exciting that, in this case Intuita Machines would own the infrastructure and be able to operate the infrastructure while NASS is not there. That's quite unique in terms of the contract and the service that we provide. We have had interest for individuals or companies that want to do excavating and mining and harvesting of materials on the surface and cashing those materials for later return to earth. Speaker 200:27:38So that's quite interesting. And there was a number of in our commercialization plan that we submitted to NASA, there were a number of letters of interest from companies. I think we had on the order of 10 companies interested in using the LTV, Operator00:27:54should we Speaker 200:27:54be awarded the contract. So quite a bit of interest and I think as we move forward and it gets more attention, that interest will only grow. Speaker 700:28:05Got it. Great. Thanks for the color there, Steve. And then more broadly, there's a lot of talk about SpaceX's Starship for various reasons, obviously. But I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on what a successful operational Starship could mean for the future of lunar transport in general and maybe for Intuitive specifically? Speaker 200:28:28Yes. As I mentioned in a previous question, I think what's of strategic importance to the United States is the heavy lift capability. And whether that heavy lift comes in the version of the Space Launch System or the Starship, it will be a critical component to sustain human presence on the moon. What's nice though is that intuitive machines is complementary to Starship and Starship while it has a very heavy cargo and a way to aggregate multiple mission elements on a single mission to the moon, we'll have regular cargo deliveries of smaller sizes to the moon and in various locations around the moon that will keep the cadence of missions up and will be enough to really feed a community of smaller delivery service companies that will be put in cargo and critical systems and satellites around the moon and on the moon. Operator00:29:34Okay. Excellent. And then just Speaker 700:29:35if I could sneak one more in there. Without putting words in your mouth, Steve, you talked about the first potential fully commercial mission after IM3. You said you were aggregating payloads. Would it be right to assume then that you're seeing enough demand today to fulfill a fully commercial mission? Or are you expecting to get whatever incremental demand that would warrant a fully commercial mission within the next 2 years? Speaker 200:30:09We have signed contracts with multiple payloads that we've been aggregating and holding for this commercial mission. And as those come in and as we negotiate those contracts, we get to a point where we have enough to declare a mission. And those negotiations are signed contracts and negotiations underway that give us the opportunity to declare a commercial mission today. We expect more coming in over the next 2 years. And this gap between the last competed clips mission and CP22, which is the next one, is that 2 year gap that we want to fill so that we maintain this cadence of missions going to the moon. Speaker 200:30:53So we see a lot of commercial interest and international interest in terms of signed contracts to fly to the moon and we see that growing continually over the next couple of years. Speaker 700:31:06Excellent. Great. I appreciate you taking my questions. Thanks everyone. Speaker 600:31:09Thanks, Clifford. Operator00:31:12Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Austin Moeller with Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead. Speaker 800:31:20Hi, good morning. Nice quarter. Just my first question here, are all the ESPA ring slots on IM2 and IM3 currently occupied? And if not, are you still seeking payloads to put on there before integration? Speaker 200:31:36So all of the slots good question, Austin. Good to hear from you. All of the slots on IM2 are filled and we're at max capacity and sold out. We still have some availability on an Esterin slot on IM3 that we're talking with payloads potential payload customers to fill that slot prior to that mission. Speaker 800:32:02Great. And just a follow-up, what's currently the status of the first con relay satellite that was supposed to be riding aboard IM2, how should we be thinking about that? Speaker 200:32:16So what we've done is we've combined we've went back and looked at that in anticipation of an NS award, which I mentioned should be coming out in the Q2. Or hopefully, we're awarded that mission. We've built out a much better capability on Khan-two or our second communications satellite and found that the first satellite wasn't compliant with the requirements that NASA we anticipate coming out of NASA. So we built a better or are building a better bus and comm relay on Khan 2, our second satellite, and we'll fly that on IM3. Speaker 800:33:01Excellent. Thanks for the details. Speaker 200:33:04Thanks, Austin. Operator00:33:08Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Edison Yu with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Speaker 900:33:16Hey, good morning. Thank you for taking our questions. What on the geopolitical angle, how do you think this aspect is sort of playing out, especially with the DoD's view on the system or economy at the moment? Speaker 200:33:33I missed the last part, Edison, you failed off there. The DoD's interest in this space race, Is that your comment? Speaker 900:33:43The cis lunar economy. Speaker 200:33:46Okay. Yes. Well, I think there's some as stated by a number of the DoD leadership that there's a lot of interest in what's going on in GEO and ex GEO and that maintains their focus and priority at this point. And I think as the traffic model increases in and around the moon, that will then gain some priority. But they're going to need to see more than 1 or 2 missions to the moon a year before they'll be able to reallocate budgets towards this lunar economy. Speaker 200:34:25So we're seeing that Space Force appetite for cislunar capabilities slowly growing over the next couple of years. And then as the traffic like I said, as the traffic model increases, that appetite for additional information and space traffic management and space domain awareness will increase. Speaker 900:34:49Understood. And just kind of more longer term and broader question on LTV, how do we think this sort of fits into the company's overall vision strategy when we couple that with the upcoming NSN as in as CP22 awards? Speaker 200:35:08So I think with respect to LTV, it's part of the strategy to if I think about it, delivery to be able to take things to the surface, to be able to communicate essentially command and control communications around the moon is of critical interest, including navigation. And then the ability to do extreme mobility. And LTV gives you that. And because we can then move around the surface, we can begin to build infrastructure that supports sustained human presence on the moon. And so our company is built an ecosystem of capability in and around the moon. Speaker 200:35:48And in terms of delivery, command and control, communications and extreme ability. And that's how that all fits together. And we're anxiously awaiting, like I said, that last chess piece in the NSNS contract to be able to deploy our data relay satellites and provide that service back to the government for communications around the move. Speaker 900:36:12Great. Thank you. Speaker 200:36:14Thank you, Anderson. Operator00:36:17Thank you. There are no further questions. I would like to hand the floor back to Intuitive Machine's CEO, Steve Altimus for closing remarks. Speaker 200:36:27Well, thank you everybody for attending and joining us today on the call. As you heard, we've had a historic Q1 both operationally and financially, and we expect to build on that momentum throughout the year. I look forward to talking to you in the future. Thank you.Read morePowered by