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Intuitive Machines says that its Odysseus Moon lander tripped and fell over on touchdown and is now lying on its side. One of the legs of the robotic spacecraft dug into the lunar surface during landing maneuvers, making it fall over on a rock.Continue… Continue reading Oops: Odysseus lunar lander fell over on touchdown
In 2019 a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an Israeli spacecraft carrying a 30-million page archive of human civilization to the moon. Unfortunately, that spacecraft crashed.
But thanks to this week’s moon landing by the Odysseus, there’s now a 30-mill… Continue reading Moon Landing’s Payloads Include Archive of Human Knowledge, Lunar Data Center Test, NFTs
On Thursday, the Odysseus Moon lander made history by becoming the first ever privately built and operated robot to complete a soft lunar touchdown. While the lander is “alive and well,” the CEO of Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which built and flew… Continue reading Odysseus Moon Lander ‘Tipped Over On Touchdown’
The first privately built spacecraft has successfully landed on the lunar surface on Thursday. “We can confirm, without a doubt, that our equipment is on the surface of the moon,” said Stephen Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based compa… Continue reading US Lands Unmanned ‘Odysseus’ Spacecraft On Moon
The United States has returned to the Moon after over 50 years. At 6:24 pm EST, the robotic Odysseus touched down autonomously on the lunar surface, followed by a tense 13-minute gap as radio communications were established with mission control.Continu… Continue reading US returns to the Moon after half a century with nail-biter landing
Want to watch as the US has another go on Thursday at the first private Moon landing? NASA and Intuitive Machines have teamed up with a live feed as the robotic lander Odysseus is scheduled to touch down near the lunar south pole at 5.30pm EST.Continue… Continue reading How to watch the US Moon landing live
Texas-based Intuitive Machines’ inaugural moon mission began early Thursday morning, heading toward what could be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years. From a report: Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander launched from Florida on SpaceX’s Fal… Continue reading Moon Company Intuitive Machines Begins First Mission After SpaceX Launch
The US is taking another stab at landing a privately owned and operated spacecraft on the Moon. At 1:05 am EST today, the Odysseus lander lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 29A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Continue R… Continue reading US makes second attempt at commercial Moon landing
When the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander lifts off on February 14, it will be carrying a novel new fuel gauge developed by NASA that can measure cryogenic propellants in the thruster tanks by means of radio waves.Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading NASA to use radio waves to gauge fuel levels on Nova- C lunar lander
When we first developed telescopes, we started using them on the ground. Humanity was yet to master powered flight, you see, to say nothing of going beyond into space. As …read more Continue reading They Want To Put A Telescope In A Crater On The Moon