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The Odysseus lander, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed on the moon on Feb. 22, making history as the first commercial craft to reach the lunar surface and the first U.S. spacecraft ...
The lander, built by Intuitive Machines, touched down on the lunar surface at around 6:24 p.m. ET, overcoming a late-stage glitch with its onboard laser instruments. Moon landing: 'Odysseus ...
The phone booth-size Odysseus lander spent the past week in space, traveling about 620,370 miles (1 million kilometers) through the void before placing itself in lunar orbit on Wednesday morning ...
Intuitive Machines was one of three service providers awarded task orders in 2019 for delivery of NASA science payloads to the Moon. [8] The IM-1 lunar lander, named Odysseus (pronounced / ə ˈ d ɪ s i ə s / ə-DISS-ee-əs), was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 [6] rocket on 15 February 2024, reached lunar orbit on 21 February, and landed on ...
A robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company was initially scheduled to reach the moon at 5:30 p.m. ET but was delayed. U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon [Video] Skip to ...
IM-1(Odysseus) IM-1 was a lunar mission that was carried out in February 2024 jointly by a partnership between the NASA CLPS program and Intuitive Machines (IM), using an Nova-C lunar lander. IM named their lunar lander as its Odysseus lander. The Odysseus lander was the first commercial lunar lander to have successfully soft-landed on the Moon ...
Engineers planned to put Odysseus "to sleep" on Wednesday evening as the lander ended its sixth day on the moon, once solar power regeneration was no longer sufficient to keep it sending telemetry ...
February 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM. By Steve Gorman. (Reuters) -A moon lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines reached lunar orbit on Wednesday, heading for an attempt at the first U.S ...