NASA Transfers Management of Lunar Science Instruments to Intuitive Machines
NASA has transferred the management of two lunar science instruments to Intuitive Machines. This change comes as the principal investigators and science team members of these instruments have joined the company. The instruments involved are the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and ShadowCam. LROC, part of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission since 2009, captures high-resolution images of the lunar surface. ShadowCam, a similar instrument, is designed to image the Moon's permanently shadowed regions. Both instruments were originally managed by Arizona State University and built by Malin Space Science Systems. The data from these instruments is now managed by Texas A&M University as part of NASA's Planetary Data System. 
