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Affordable Downmass for Space Industrial Ventures
The Intuitive Machines Zephyr is an uncrewed, free-flying re-entry platform designed in collaboration with the Texas Space Commission and industry partners to bridge today's costly gaps between space manufacturing and Earth markets. Zephyr survives direct re-entry without high ballistic loads by employing a mid-L/D "ellipsled" aeroshell and a commercially-produced heatshield. Its deployable parafoil provides controlled glide to a soft landing which eliminates the challenges of capsule recovery. The design packs 3m3 of cargo volume and up to 150 kg of payload accommodations.
As a result, Zephyr provides customers dedicated orbital access return on any available ESPA Grande rideshare slot and drives the effective cost-per-kilogram below current sample-return services by an order of magnitude. Zephyr's standardized payload bay includes flight-proven mechanical and electrical interfaces and the IM PayloadLink open source API. This focus on affordability and responsiveness empowers Zephyr customers to harvest finished biomaterials, semiconductor seed crystals, and other high-value products from space in days-to-weeks from any available spaceport nearest the end user.
In this session, IM and partners (potentially from Rhodium Scientific, Space Forge, Texas A&M University, and San Jacinto College) will discuss how we are leveraging the revolutionary investment from the Texas Space Commission to accelerate the development of the Zephyr platform and put space to work for humanity.
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