# Who does Intuitive Machines pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/intuitive-machines · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-07-12T03:47:49.078+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Intuitive Machines's confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include SpaceX, L3Harris. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 3 dated sources, 0 of them primary filings (as of 2026-07-12).

### SpaceX (high)  → /spacex.md
- note: SpaceX Falcon 9 (KSC LC-39A) provides launch for every IM lunar lander (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3), the key launch-services cost input for each mission. Per-launch contract values are not disclosed.
- [confirms] Wikipedia (EN, research, published 2026-07-04) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C: "SpaceX is under contract to provide Falcon 9 launches for each of the three landers."
- [confirms] NASA (EN, news, published 2024-02-13) https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-spacex-intuitive-machines-first-moon-mission/: "Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

### L3Harris (mid)  → /l3harris.md
- note: ARDÉ, an L3Harris company, is the current supplier of the lightweight composite pressure vessels (COPVs, two per lander) that pressurize the Nova-C propulsion system, a hardware cost input to lander manufacturing. Supply-contract value is not disclosed.
- [mentions] Wikipedia (EN, research, published 2026-07-04) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C: "The lander's gimbaled VR900 main engine uses methane and oxygen as liquid propellants and is pressurized by helium gas, producing 3,100 N (700 lbf) of thrust."
- [confirms] L3Harris (EN, news, published 2025-02-12) https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/editorial/2025/02/l3harris-delivers-intuitive-machines-im-2-nova-c-lunar-lander: "ARDÉ is the nation's leading supplier of highly reliable, lightweight pressure vessels for space applications ... They are also the current supplier to Intuitive Machines for its Nova-C landers ... each Nova-C lander requiring two identical tanks."

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