Case Study: Intuitive Machines achieves historic Moon landing with GitLab

Intuitive Machines enables historic Moon landing with GitLab

Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based science and technology company, needed to build the software for its NASA lunar lander mission from scratch in just five years. To meet that deadline with a small team and a fragmented toolchain, the company adopted GitLab Ultimate to provide a single DevSecOps platform for collaboration, visibility, and faster development.

With GitLab, Intuitive Machines centralized development, automated testing in CI pipelines, and rapidly validated and deployed mission-critical patches for spacecraft operations. The result was a 10x increase in release cadence, a 99% reduction in downtime, and a 20x decrease in pipeline execution time, helping GitLab play a mission-critical role in the historic first U.S. commercial Moon landing.

Intuitive Machines

James Blakeslee

Software Lead