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As the Odysseus Moon lander faces its final hours of life, it turns out there’s one final twist in the saga: The spacecraft broke one of its legs on landing, thanks to a cascade of mistakes that began back on Earth, when a safety switch wasn’t flicked … Continue reading Odysseus broke leg on landing thanks to overlooked laser switch
Beating incredible odds, Japan’s SLIM lunar lander came back to life after surviving the intense dark and cold of the Moon’s night. On February 25, JAXA confirmed that it had temporarily reestablished communications with the robotic spacecraft.Continue… Continue reading Japan’s SLIM lunar lander comes back to life after killer Moon night
The IM-1 Moon landing mission will come to a premature end on Tuesday morning. Intuitive Machines has announced that the Odysseus lander will no longer be able to charge its batteries by February 27 as sunlight stops falling on its solar panels.Continu… Continue reading The Odysseus lunar mission ends following human error on Earth
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