Odysseus lander is upright, starting to send data
WATCH LIVE: Engineers had to deal with navigation issues, but accomplished the first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years. The Odysseus lunar lander is upright and starting to send data, according to Intuitive Machines.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Engineers had to deal with navigation issues, but accomplished the first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years.
The Odysseus lunar lander is upright and starting to send data, according to Intuitive Machines.
Mission control solved communication problems after a stressful wait, and the lander’s first images from the surface are coming in now.
Among the items on its lander Odysseus, a 14-foot-tall lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, the IM-1 mission is carrying NASA payloads focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Space Coast on February 15.
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ first lunar mission will carry NASA science and commercial payloads to the Moon to study plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies.
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