Earnings call transcript: Intuitive Machines Q3 2025 sees revenue growth

Intuitive Machines, a leading player in space infrastructure, reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2025, highlighting a revenue of $52.4 million. The company experienced a net loss of $10 million, yet showed improvement with an adjusted EBITDA of -$13.2 million, marking a $12.2 million increase from the previous quarter. Despite these figures, the company’s stock price dropped by 3.37% to $11.19, further dipping by 4.66% in premarket trading.

Key Takeaways

• Q3 revenue reached $52.4 million, with a net loss of $10 million.
• Stock price decreased by 3.37% after earnings release.
• Acquisition of Lanterra Space Systems announced for $800 million.
• Expanded manufacturing capabilities and new mission developments.
• Guidance suggests Q4 revenue will be similar to Q3.

Company Performance

Intuitive Machines’ performance in Q3 2025 reflected significant strides in revenue generation, although the company continued to operate at a loss. The acquisition of Lanterra Space Systems is poised to enhance its satellite manufacturing capabilities, potentially driving future growth. The company remains focused on expanding its lunar data relay constellation and developing new missions, positioning itself strongly within the growing space infrastructure market.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $52.4 million
• Gross Margin: $5.7 million
• Net Loss: $10 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: -$13.2 million (improved by $12.2 million from Q2)
• Cash Balance: $622 million
• Backlog: $235.9 million

Market Reaction

Following the earnings release, Intuitive Machines’ stock price fell by 3.37%, closing at $11.19. The premarket session saw further decline, with a 4.66% drop to $11.04. This movement reflects investor concerns over the company’s ongoing net losses despite revenue growth and strategic acquisitions.

Outlook & Guidance

The company expects Q4 2025 revenue to mirror Q3 figures, with ongoing integration of Lanterra Space Systems anticipated to complete within 9 to 12 months. Intuitive Machines is targeting new opportunities in the CLIPS CT4 and Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services, with a focus on expanding its offerings in space domain awareness and secure communications.

Executive Commentary

CEO Steve Altimis emphasized the company’s strategic positioning, stating, "We are defining the next generation of Space Prime that will operate and deliver faster and more affordably across the space domain." CFO Pete McGrath highlighted the acquisition’s potential, noting, "Lantaris is a cash-generating business." Altimis further pointed out the advantages of their service model, "Our services model is a higher margin business."

Risks and Challenges

• Continued net losses may challenge investor confidence.
• Integration of Lanterra Space Systems could face unforeseen hurdles.
• Market competition in space infrastructure remains intense.
• Economic pressures could impact funding and project timelines.
• Dependence on government contracts, which may fluctuate with policy changes.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts questioned the margin improvements expected from the Lanterra acquisition and the potential for expanding the lunar constellation. Discussions also covered nuclear space technology opportunities and the emphasis on a service-based revenue model, which is anticipated to enhance profitability in the long term.

Full transcript - Intuitive Machines Inc (LUNR) Q3 2025:

Colby, Conference Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Colby and I’ll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome you to the Intuitive Machines Acquisition Update Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. And after the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question and answer session.

Please be advised that today’s call is being recorded. I would like to turn the call over to Stephen Zhang, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Stephen Zhang, Head of Investor Relations, Intuitive Machines: Good morning. Welcome to the Intuitive Machines acquisition update call. Chief Executive Officer, Steve Altemis and Chief Financial Officer, Pete McGrath are leading the call today. Before we begin, please note that some of the information discussed during today’s call will consist of forward looking statements, setting forth our current expectations with respect to the future of our business, the economy and other events. The company’s actual results could differ materially from those indicated in any forward looking statements due to many factors.

These factors are described under forward looking statements in the company’s press release and the company’s most recent 10 ks and 10 Q filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward looking statements. We also expect to discuss certain financial measures and information that are non GAAP measures as defined in the applicable SEC rules and regulations. Reconciliations to the company’s GAAP measures are included in the acquisition update filed on Form eight ks. Finally, we posted an acquisition update call presentation to our website, which provides additional context.

You can find this presentation on our Investor Relations page at www.intuitivemachines.com/investors. Now I’ll turn the call over to Steve Altimas.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thank you, Stephen. Good morning. I’m pleased to announce that Intuitive Machines has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Lanterra Space Systems, formerly known as Maxar Space Systems from Advent. In a transaction priced at $800,000,000 consisting of $450,000,000 in cash and $350,000,000 in Intuitive Machines Class A common stock. During our second quarter earnings call, I stated our long term vision to become a new space prime, providing delivery, data and infrastructure services, emphasizing growth in communications, navigation and space data networking services for defense, civil and commercial markets.

We just did exactly that. With this acquisition, Intuitive Machines is positioned to become the next generation space prime, applying our demonstrated agility and innovation with Lantaris’ unmatched satellite production, scale and proven spaceflight reliability. The transaction represents the next step in Intuitive Machines’ evolution from a lunar proven space infrastructure company to a vertically integrated space prime provider of choice, serving national security, civil, and commercial customers across Earth, ground, Earth orbit, moon, Mars, and beyond. Global demand for secure sovereign communications, missile warning, and space domain awareness is increasing. US defense and intelligence programs like space development agencies, layered architecture require companies that can move fast, innovate and deliver at scale.

Intuitive Machines brings a disruptive and innovative development approach in building unique, agile and highly specialized solutions in extreme firm fixed price environments. Over the past two years, we’ve proven our ability to build, fly, maneuver and operate in lunar space using our network of global ground stations and our near space data network. Our vision has always been clear, to build the infrastructure that enables economic expansion into space. To do that, we must move faster and operate at scale, and that is what Lantaris brings. With over sixty five years of experience, Lantaris has developed, delivered more than 300 spacecraft for critical national security, civil and commercial missions, supporting missile warning, space demand awareness and communication programs vital to The United States and its allies.

The company maintains 99.99% on orbit availability and operates world class production facilities totaling over 560,000 square feet. Lantaris builds high value spacecraft with a strong commercial focus, successfully operating in a cost efficient competitive environment. In just the last three years, Lantaris introduced its 300 series spacecraft as a leading platform for proliferated low earth orbit constellations. This record of performance cements Lantaris as a trusted provider of critical space defense capabilities for the U. S.

Government. We know the growing national security market is seeking commercial minded solutions to address emerging complex missions. This acquisition allows us to apply ingenuity to proven delivery capability that distinguishes ourselves as a next generation prime. Coupling our collective expertise to address new demands across civil, defense and commercial sectors is a powerful combination we are pleased to bring to market. We believe this acquisition will strengthen the company’s position to prime future national security space, including Golden Dome and Space Development Agency’s layered architecture, civil space, such as Artemis, LTBS, and Mars Data Relay, and commercial space programs.

This acquisition also enhances our competitiveness across several active opportunities where Intuitive Machines already leads. By integrating Lantaris’ production scale and communications experience into our existing architectures, we strengthen our pursuit of our vision, expanding our Lunar Data Relay constellation under the Near Space Network Services contract and commercializing NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay satellite system. This integration can accelerate orders and broaden our capacity to deliver value from every orbit. We believe this acquisition accelerates Intuitive Machines’ transition into a company that can design, manufacture, deliver and operate missions across the entire space domain from Earth orbit to lunar orbit and ultimately to Mars in deep space. Intuitive Machines is creating a new model for how space primes operate that intends to unlock diverse revenue streams that fuel a high growth, high margin portfolio.

As mentioned, Lanteris positioned the company for sustainable growth by investing in the 300 class satellite and pivoting toward national security markets, including the space development agency tranche one and tranche two awards for l three Harris in 2022 and 2024. That foundation unlocked the potential of Lantaris’ 300 series spacecraft for national security applications and established it as a trusted competitive supplier. We look forward to applying our innovation, speed of execution, and services model to further amplify this momentum. I’ll now hand it over to Pete McGrath to go over the Q3 financials along with details around the transaction.

Pete McGrath, Chief Financial Officer, Intuitive Machines: Pete? Thank you, Steve, and thanks to everyone joining us today. Starting with Q3 financials, revenue was $52,400,000 driven primarily by OMS, CLIPS and NS and S. We continue to monitor the government shutdown and budgetary processes where there is legislative language for the defense appropriations markup to fund OSAM-one for the Space Force, which will shift this program from civil space to national security. Gross margin was $5,700,000 driven by continued focus on cost and execution of key programs.

This was an improvement compared to Q2 twenty twenty five, which included significant EAC adjustments on I and III and I and IV. Net loss for the quarter was $10,000,000 and adjusted EBITDA was negative $13,200,000 in the quarter, an improvement in adjusted EBITDA of $12,200,000 versus Q2 twenty twenty five, driven by higher gross margins. We ended Q3 with a backlog of $235,900,000 which includes $9,800,000 for the definitized orbital transfer vehicle contract, dollars 8,200,000.0 for the follow on in space nuclear power contract and $7,500,000 for a commercial rideshare customer on Ion four. Note that the backlog does not contain the remaining $123,000,000 of the total $150,000,000 initial value for MS and S 2.2, which is recognized on a task order basis. When looking at our Q3 twenty twenty five backlog, we expect to recognize approximately 20% of that in 2025.

With the acquisition of Lanteris, we intend to provide updated backlog burn rates for 2026 and 2027 early next year. In August, we completed a $345,000,000 gross convertible note offering with the intent to acquire a company that would transform us into a next generation space prime. Lantaris is that company. We intended Q3 with a cash balance of $622,000,000 Our detailed financial tables will be provided next week in conjunction with our 10 Q filing. Moving on to outlook.

The timing associated with our year end revenue is impacted by uncertainty related to the government shutdown. Therefore, based on current backlog, we see Q4 revenue in line with Q3, and we remain confident in our ability to capture our identified near term awards. Intuitive Machines expects to provide a new outlook for the combined twenty twenty six combined company early next year. Now shifting to the Lanteris acquisition. The transaction is valued at $800,000,000 and will be funded through $450,000,000 of cash from our balance sheet and $350,000,000 of Intuitive Machines Class A common stock, subject to adjustments.

The deal uses a stock value of $12.34 based on a volume weighted average trading price for the ten trading days ending on 10/31/2025. As a standalone company, Lantaris is a cash generating business. As a combined company, Intuitive Machines expects to have adequate cash on hand for continued operations. The transaction has been approved by Intuitive Machines Board of Directors as well as the Sellers Board. We expect to close the transaction in Q1 of next year, subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions.

This acquisition will be immediately accredited to revenue, adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow. Following this transaction, we will remain in a position of financial strength as a combined entity with more than $850,000,000 in revenue, positive adjusted EBITDA and $920,000,000 in backlog based on Q3 twenty twenty five trailing twelve month financials. I will now pass it back to Steve Altimas for closing remarks.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thanks, Pete. The new Intuitive Machines will combine rapid innovation and precision spacecraft production to meet the growing demand for responsive high reliability space infrastructure and services. With Lanterra’s production scale, we gain the opportunity to deploy entire constellations that extend our lunar network to proliferated low earth orbit to MEO and GEO. We believe this acquisition adds immediate capability to deploy multi mission, multi domain data networks. We are defining the next generation of Space Prime that will operate and deliver faster and more affordably across the space domain.

With that, operator, we’re now ready for questions.

Colby, Conference Operator: Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. Your first question comes from the line of Austin Moeller with Canaccord. Your line is open.

Austin Moeller, Analyst, Canaccord: Hi, good morning, Steve and Pete. So just my first question here, what changes has Advent made within Lanterra to improve the margin profile of their manufacturing since they bought them? And are there any large exquisite satellite programs in the backlog that still need to ship out?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Lanteris is interesting. As you know, they were public Maxar Space was publicly traded and then went private with Advent. And what you’ve seen is that they’ve had some programs that they have completed that we’re struggling, I guess, with cost controls, all those are off the books. And they’ve since then invested in the 300 series satellite, which actually serves tranche one and tranche two for the space development agency. And so they’re moving in a very positive direction moving forward with efficiencies that they’ve built into the company.

So we’re very pleased to see the momentum that they have and to capitalize on that momentum moving forward. I think this is an exciting acquisition. As far as your second question, I believe they’re essentially nearing completion of the power propulsion element for NASA’s Artemis program. And that’s the most powerful satellite built in terms of propulsion and power generation to date for anyone, I believe. And that one’s essentially complete and ready to ship certainly in the near future.

Austin Moeller, Analyst, Canaccord: Okay. And then I guess should we frame the strategy here as looking to gain more manufacturing capability left of launch and then being able to drive margins with services revenues post launch using the ground stations in the off center?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yes, that’s correct. Our services model is a higher margin business. And what we can do is use the manufacturing and production and the reliability that Lantaris brings to the table to feed our own networks, our data networks out to cislunar space, and then thinking about how we might replace the aging tracking data relay satellite service for the U. S. Government and then out to Mars in terms of Mars data relay to replace that aging infrastructure.

So it really is we are our own customer in some sense for our satellites. And the high reliability of the track record that Lantaris has is just incredible in terms of how many satellites they’ve put into orbit, their operational life and their on orbit availability. At 99.9% availability is just the market leading capability.

Austin Moeller, Analyst, Canaccord: Great. Thanks for all the details. Very exciting opportunity.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thanks, Austin.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Edison Yu with Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Thank you. Good morning and congratulations on the transformative deal. On Lanterra’s, first I wanted to ask, what do you envision as the sort of growth profile of it going forward? Obviously, it’s gone private. It’s been through kind of its own issues that you kind of alluded to earlier.

Is this a business that can grow healthy going forward, assuming it can win some of these contracts? What’s sort of embedded in your outlook for that?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Well, Edison, thanks for your question. Together, the combination of the company really is exciting. With the spark of innovation that Intuitive Machines brings and Lantaris’ production scale and high reliability, we not only feed existing programs on both the Intuitive Machines side and the Lantaris side, but we can actually feed to Austin’s question the near space network and our own network capabilities in terms of communication data relay satellites. But what’s really powerful is a total addressable market that we can unlock and open up, and the diverse revenue streams that we’ll create as taking the family of satellites that Lantaris currently builds and providing unique mission solutions to open up those markets and access those revenue streams. We talk about things like the SDA Tranche three tracking layer.

We can talk about TDRS replacement. We can talk about Mars Data Relay. We can talk about alternate GPS. Those are the kinds of things that aren’t necessarily on the books today that are new markets that become available with this acquisition.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Understood. You disclosed the backlog number, obviously, for Alantaris. Is there any way to break that down in any deeper way, perhaps even by what programs would be the most in there in terms of customer exposure, anything you can share?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Well, I would say, if you look at the business today, they’re roughly 25% defense, 25% civil and 50% commercial is the way you break down their business. And I think you can look at the backlog in that way. I think that backlog will be changing over time as these pending new awards for Lanteris will change that mix to increase the defense or national security portion of their portfolio.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Thank you.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Josh Sullivan with Jones Trading. Your line is open.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Hey, good morning. Congratulations there. Good morning, Josh. Steve, in the past, you’ve talked a lot about how I am a data company Can you just touch on how I’m and Lantris here scale, some of the data opportunities or just what you’re thinking about there?

Yes, Josh. Good morning. What we’ve said since over the past year or two is, as you’ve seen us form the company, Intuitive Machines in terms of delivery services, that’s the transportation layer that takes us to the moon. The data services, which is the ground segment around the world, the global ground segment that communicates out towards the moon and beyond out to 2,000,000 kilometers, that’s the direct to earth kind of ground segment coupled with our data relay network and position navigation timing around the moon, that constellation. So now if we have that in place, how might we extend that going forward?

And then the third, I’ll come back to that, and the third one pillar is the infrastructure, the service, which you’ll we’re actually waiting the outcome of the Lunar Trained Vehicle Services contract, and we expect that award later in this year, depending on the government shutdown. But as I think about the data services, the major expansion of the business will come in the data services and networks over time. As we see, there’s a lot of opportunity, like I said, with the tracking data relay satellite services coming open and maybe potentially the Deep Space Network commercialization, as well as replacing the aging infrastructure across out at Mars and Mars Data Relay. In addition, there is the tracking layers for the FDA and the Golden Dome, which has opportunities for communications and navigation that directly is fed by the kind of capability that Intuitive Machines has, but now augmented by the amazing and reliable satellites that Lantaris brings to bear. So I think that coupling really does put us in a position to prime some of the opportunities coming out of Golden Dome and SDA.

Got it. And then I guess, intuitive historical knowledge base around LUNAR operations and now the scale that Plantris brings to bear, how might you be thinking about Artemis III or related tactical opportunities here? Yes, we actually are in a fantastic position to offer build a team and offer solutions for the human landing system. NASA is keenly interested in finding a way deliver that earlier and Intuitive Machines are going to throw our hat in the ring with Lantaris by our side and other companies joining our team. So you can expect an offering from Intuitive Machines.

Great. Thank you for the time. Thanks, Josh.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Jonathan Siegman with Stifel. Your line is open.

Jonathan Siegman, Analyst, Stifel: There’s been some news reports that the customer might be rethinking some of the Artemis missions and even rebidding portions of it. Can you comment a bit on how NASA’s thinking may be evolving on the portions that you’re involved with? And also, if I heard how you answered Josh’s

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: question,

Jonathan Siegman, Analyst, Stifel: you still expect LTV to be awarded this year despite the shutdown? Thank you.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yes. Thanks, Jonathan. And I appreciate your coverage of intuitive machines moving forward. Thank you. So we see that the ECLIPSE contract, Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract continues to move forward.

We’re expecting results of solicitation for what they call CT4. Again, the government shutdown has put a little bit of a monkey wrench in that, not showing what the timing of that will be, whether that’s supposed to be awarded by the end of the year. We do expect the LTVs demonstration mission to be awarded. From our understanding that that solicitation is ready to award. Again, the government shutdown has put timing in question, but we do expect that and that’s part of the ARTEMIS program to be awarded.

And then you’re hearing a lot of talk about moving faster with ARTEMIS III and the human landed system. And so that essentially in the agency is looking for information to repost and reopen that solicitation. And I answered Josh there that we’re going to throw our hat in the ring on that one. And then we’re continuing to press forward with all speed on the Near Space Network Services contract. That’s a contract that not only supports Artemis program, but supports other government agencies and their needs for communications from Earth all the way out beyond cislunar space.

And so the future looks very bright for us in terms of the NASA customer. And then if you think about what I just was talking about, about in national security space, we’re exceptionally positioned to respond to opportunities that are coming out of SDA and the Golden Dome programs.

Jonathan Siegman, Analyst, Stifel: Thank you. And maybe if I could slip another one, just in the capacity, you were successful in adding to your footprint in Houston recently and now you have you will have a wider footprint with the acquisition. Is there, I guess, does that change your plans on where you’re going to be producing the own satellites in Houston or is there a chance to put these all pieces together differently? Yes,

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: it’s good. The facility complement at Lantaris is incredible with three categories of satellites in their family, the 300, the 500 and the 1,300 series. Well oiled machine out there in Palo Alto and San Jose. Here in Houston, we have some serious hardware to build also. We have the Nova C for two additional missions.

We have the Nova D heavy cargo mission for LTV. We have the LTV to build, and we’re building in first three satellites for our constellation around the moon for the NSNS. We are thinking about converting and building larger satellites for the fourth and fifth satellite in the constellation now that we plan to acquire Lantaris. So much more capable satellites that then can prove out the capability for Mars Data Relay. And essentially, those satellites would be precursors to Mars Data Relay satellites in the future.

Thank you.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from Alex Preston with Bank of America. Your line is open.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Hey, guys. Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. So you noted in the release, you’re going to end the quarter with about $620,000,000 of cash, deployed $450,000,000 here. What’s your comfort level given Lantaris’ cash generation?

Or would you maybe look for incremental financing? Right now, we have enough capital on the balance sheet to fund operations moving forward, even considering the combination with Lantaris. Lantaris is a cash generating business. And the combination, we expect continued operations with sufficient capital moving forward.

Pete McGrath, Chief Financial Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yes. We also are always being opportunistic looking at other M and A opportunities, which would be anything that would drive additional cash needs. But right now, we see adequate cash on the books to manage our operations.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Got it. Appreciate the color. And then maybe just a quick sort of housekeeping one. Steve, I think you talked about Lantaris’ backlog is 25% defense, 25% civil, 50% commercial. Does that commercial portion include something like the work they do for L3 on the tracking layer?

Or is that like strictly by end market or end use? That’s by end market. So the commercial work is really the geo communications birds that they put up. That’s really the 1,300 series satellite, the larger satellites. The tracking layer will fall into the national security.

Got it. Thank you. Sure.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from Andres Sheppard with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open.

Anand, Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald: Hey, this is Anand on for Andres. Congrats on the news in the acquisition. Most of our questions have been asked, but I was wondering if you could dive a little bit more on your recent statement and could help explain what this means for SDA and Golden Dome opportunities now as a combined company, especially with the regulatory focus and shift on this initiative?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yes. So I think if you look at the capabilities of the investment that Lantaris made in the 300 series satellite, that is a very capable satellite for proliferated LEO constellation, which fits the need for the tracking layer. And so I think it’s a strong offering in partnership with L3Harris that we’re hopeful that that will be awarded. So we’re looking forward to that. And then as Golden Dome takes shape, the combination of the ingenuity and innovation that Intuitive Machines brings with its systems and communications and navigation scheme, coupled with the very capable satellite buses produced by Lantaris offer unique solutions that I don’t think are in the market today with any other vendor or contractor.

So we feel like we’re in a good position here for the future opportunities coming out of Golden Dome.

Anand, Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald: Got it. Thank you. And I guess going forward, maybe what other news opportunities do you expect to pursue and unlock? I know a lot were mentioned, but what are you the most excited about?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Well, we were very excited last night to get to signing. We look to get to closing here in the next sixty to ninety days and really get the businesses integrated. And possibilities that are associated with putting Intuitive Machines and Lanteris together really create some excitement in the aerospace sector. And so just working together and building a powerhouse new space prime is what I’m looking forward to, that really kind of disrupts the paradigm that we’ve had for so many years and now provides an alternative offering with a commercial bent to provide lean, agile, affordable solutions to both civil space and national security space. That’s the excitement.

Anand, Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald: Got you. Thank you so much. I’ll pass it on.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thank you.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from Jeff Van Rhee with Craig Hallum. This

Stephen Zhang, Head of Investor Relations, Intuitive Machines: is Vijay Homan on for Jeff Van Rhee. Just had a quick one for you. I was wondering, was Lanteris the kind of capability you guys were specifically shopping for? Were there other kind of potential targets that you were looking at to bring these capabilities in house? Or was Lanteris kind of the only one and sort of an opportunistic buy?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: We had an M and A strategy that we’ve been working on for some time. Now you saw the addition of Kinetics, which was a very capable, high performance company that we added for precision navigation and constellation management and orbit determination. That was strategic. It was small but strategic, and they’re brilliant people that we added to the company. Next on the list was Lantaris and building the production capability, the scale and the reliability.

And we’ll continue to look like this to add on and fold in capabilities as we need to continue to evolve the company into this next generation prime.

Stephen Zhang, Head of Investor Relations, Intuitive Machines: Awesome. Thanks for taking my question.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from Greg Pendy with Clear Street. Your line is open.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Can you just kind of highlight what maybe is there any regulatory risk on closing the deal or integration risk? And then also, just in light of all the news about the EOCL potential budget cuts there, is there any kind of risks that we should think about with this deal?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Well, we’ll go through a standard antitrust review by the government. From a regulatory standpoint, we feel that’s fairly standard. That’ll take twenty days to file and thirty days for the opinion from the government. We don’t expect anything out of that. We’ll see what the government thinks and how the government shutdown affects that timing.

In terms of risks, I think we’ve looked at the structure of both companies. We’ve thought about it. We look at financial risks. Lantaris is in a strong position with a lot of momentum. Intuitive Machines is in a strong position.

And both companies have catalysts spending that really can even improve upon our strong financial position. So I’m feeling very confident about it. And over the next nine to twelve months, we’ll do a full integration of two companies. We’ll go through those challenges and put together a very strong company here in the coming months.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Very exciting stuff for sure. Thanks a lot. That’s very helpful.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Great.

Colby, Conference Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Griffin Boss with B. Riley Securities. Your line is open.

Griffin Boss, Analyst, B. Riley Securities: Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. So first, I just want to jump back, build off of another question that was asked a little bit earlier regarding just the integration of and the implications for NSNS. So you talked about how potentially, I think I heard you correctly that the fourth and fifth data relay satellite might now architecture might now look a little bit bigger with the addition of Lantaris’ capabilities. But does this does that addition and the additional manufacturing capacity that it brings change your calculus with regard to the timing of deployment of those data relay satellites?

You’ve talked about the first one going up on Ion three, subsequent two going up on Ion four. But maybe can you pull those forward and deploy that full five satellite constellation earlier than you might have otherwise anticipated?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yeah. Thanks for your question, Griffin. What we’re finding in NSNS is that there’s demand for capability for the satellites that we’re planning for up around the moon. And we anticipate in that lunar constellation, that there will be more demand and more customers for the satellites as we move forward over the coming three, four years. And so we’re anticipating that need and providing more capability for size, weight and power on those buses, so that we can provide the space domain awareness capabilities in that Lunar constellation that we think the customers are going to want.

So this is an opportunity for us to grow that constellation. As far as speed of delivery, we are always looking for a way to get that constellation up and flying sooner. Our cadence of missions currently, I’m three, I’m four, I’m five are spaced where we’re planning to put the satellites up on those missions. If we can bring I’m four and five missions in, we would, but I think they’re potted. I think the alternatives to delivery is what we’re focused on now in terms of other ways to put those satellites up as opposed to tying them tightly to the CLIPS missions.

So we’re going to continue to study that and look for rideshare opportunities to get them into translunar injection and then off to the moon as soon as we can.

Griffin Boss, Analyst, B. Riley Securities: Got it. Okay. Understood. And then, yes, just second one for me. I guess I’ll shift over what I’ll call legacy Intuitive Machines.

I want to dig into this $8,000,000 contract extension from AFRL for the in space nuclear power tech. Think that’s an extension on the Jetson program. But maybe you can just kind of dig into that and specifically in the context of this, the new nuclear reactor on the moon, proposals coming into that 100 kilowatt reactor, does this extension help in positioning Intuitive to win on that nuclear reactor contract as well potentially? Like is technology similar that you can use for both of those programs?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thanks, Griffin. Nuclear space is exciting right now. And Intuitive Machines has been well positioned. As you recall, we’ve been working the fission surface power Phase I and Phase Ia for some time now. So we’re already in the mix for developing that reactor and delivering it to the surface.

And we will continue to go forward with that opportunity to develop and deploy the reactor. As that procurement takes shape, we’re following that very closely with our teammates. The Jetson AFRL contract for that Stealth satellite keeps us in the nuclear space game with an alternative technology that’s the Sterling engine. And what we have is this follow on contract to actually demonstrate the Sterling engine operations on the International Space Station. That’s what this is for, this next tranche, which actually advances the technology and the capability of operating Sterling engine, which is part of the reactor technology on the International Space Station.

So the technologies between FSP and Jetson are similar, but not identical. I think we’ll see whether the FSP solution is a Brighton cycle or a Stirling cycle. But the Jetson right now and the way we’re thinking about propulsion is with a Sterling engine cycle. And so we’ll test that out with AFRO.

Pete McGrath, Chief Financial Officer, Intuitive Machines: Just one note on the fission surface or FSP program. Maxar was, well, Lanteris was one of our partners on that in the last phase too. We do have a long history of working with Lanteris over the last three to five years.

Griffin Boss, Analyst, B. Riley Securities: Got it. Great context. Thanks for taking my questions. Appreciate it.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Sure.

Colby, Conference Operator: And your last question comes from Suji Desilva with ROTH Capital. Your line is open.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Hi Steve, hi Pete, congrats on the transaction here. Just a clarification on Lanteris and the asset acquired just versus Maxar. The revenue mix there, is there any recurring revenue or service revenue versus satellite product revenue to the acquired assets?

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: The way I see it today is that it’s product based revenue delivering the 300, five hundred and thirteen hundred class satellites. There’s very little subsystem delivery where they focus on developing the subsystems for themselves and their buses. And then what we’ll introduce is intuitive machines is that serve higher margin service model approach, where we’re actually flying and operating in space and delivering the data back in as a service. And so I think this is just such a smart and strong combination to put these two businesses together really will unlock the diverse revenue streams and higher margins.

Pete McGrath, Chief Financial Officer, Intuitive Machines: One other addition to that is that as you see the government move towards the service model, this combination positions us well to be playing in that space because traditionally government has bought satellites, now they’re looking to buy services.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Okay. That helps, Pete. Thanks. And then my other question is, I saw in presentation, you mentioned robotics. I’m wondering if that’s just a complementary capability or that could be a category, how you see that landscape as a product?

Thanks.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Yes, I’ll tell you something, very excited about that. We’ve opened up a center of excellence for mechanisms and robotics in Maryland, BWI Airport in Glen Burnie. That team is exceptional. And then to incorporate the Lanteris robotics team with us is just a very strong and powerful combination. We currently have Lanteris or Maxar Space Systems on our LTVs team to provide the robotic arm for the LTVs.

And so we’re naturally working together already. And when you think about other opportunities that are coming down from the national security space, you look at RGXX and MGO, those programs require essentially highly agile enterprise class satellites like the 1,300 series with robotic arms that can grapple and manipulate other satellites to repair them and inspect them. So that’s another offering of a new market that we putting these unique capabilities together that we can create and be very competitive with. Also, if you think about it, we teamed also on the OSAM mission. So the OMS contract and the on orbit satellite servicing and manufacturing, Maxar built the bus out of the 1,300 series satellite for that mission.

So as we fly that potentially for the Space Force, what are the follow on OSAM X missions that we can fly where we can reproduce that bus over and over again and deliver it for on orbit satellite servicing and manufacturing and move towards in space assembly, all brand new markets that we have yet to tap into. So it’s very exciting.

Edison Yu, Analyst, Deutsche Bank: Exciting. Looking forward to it. Thanks, Steve.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Thanks, Suji.

Colby, Conference Operator: Thank you. And with no further questions in queue, I’d like to turn the conference back over to Steve Ultimis for any closing remarks.

Steve Altimis, Chief Executive Officer, Intuitive Machines: Well, thank you everyone for joining us this morning. And welcome to the Lantaris team as part of the Intuitive Machines family. We’re very excited and looking forward to the future in space. Thank you very much.

Colby, Conference Operator: This concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect.

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