WATCH: SpaceX Launches IM-2 Mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
By Space Coast Daily // February 26, 2025
coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX Ready to Launch IM-2 Mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, February 26 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also on board this mission is NASA’S Lunar Trailblazer, Astroforge’s Odin, and Epic Aerospace’s CHIMERA GEO 1 spacecraft.
Liftoff is targeted for 7:16 p.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Thursday, February 27 at 7:10 p.m. ET if needed.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about 45 minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app.
This will be the ninth flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, and four Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Approximately three hours prior to liftoff, teams will begin loading the lunar lander with cryogenic methane and oxygen on the pad ahead of stepping into propellant load for Falcon 9.
After its deployment, the IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, will begin its 8-day journey to the Moon’s South Pole, where the lander will help demonstrate lunar mobility, resource prospecting, and analysis of volatile substances from subsurface materials.
