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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

USA · named on public Moon flights

Southwest Research Institute built the Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) flown on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (successful soft landing / surface ops class) and the Lunar Interior Temperature and Materials Suite (LITMS) planned for the cancelled CP-12 Draper host path. Instrument. SwRI also built MAPS, the ion/electron spectrometer on the Lunar Vertex lander for IM-3 / CP-11 (Reiner Gamma mini-magnetosphere). Not L-MAPS (the LTV microwave instrument).

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Flights

Blue Ghost Mission 12025-01-15 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 (TO19D ~$93.3M): Falcon 9 launch 2025-01-15 · soft landing (upright) Mare Crisium 2025-03-02 · all 10 NASA science/tech payloads operated through.
IM-3 TrinityNET H2 2026 · Intuitive Machines IM-3 (CLPS CP-11): Nova-C Trinity - NASA Moon Base III.

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