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Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus goals to land on the moon
Welcome to the Guardian’s reside protection of the most recent try to efficiently soft-land the very first non-public lander on our closest neighbor – the moon!
Final week SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off in the midst of the US evening from Nasa’s Kennedy House Middle, dispatching Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander on its 230,000 miles (370,000km) journey.
At this time the Odysseus lander is trying to make the perilous descent. Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ goals to place its 14ft-tall, six-legged lander down simply 186 miles (300km) shy of the moon’s south pole
Solely 5 international locations – the US, Russia, China, India and Japan – have scored a lunar touchdown and no non-public enterprise has but completed so. The US has not returned to the moon’s floor for the reason that Apollo program ended greater than 5 many years in the past.
Keep tuned for what may very well be a nerve-racking journey …
Key occasions
Richard Luscombe
The uncrewed Nova-C lander constructed by Intuitive Machines launched on 15 February. Its scheduled landing close to the moon’s south pole could be the primary lunar touchdown of a US spacecraft since Nasa’s ultimate Apollo mission in December 1972, and the primary by a non-government entity.
“There have been quite a lot of sleepless nights preparing for this,” Steve Altemus, the co-founder and chief government of Intuitive Machines, stated in an interview earlier than the mission. Altemus was previously Nasa’s director of engineering and deputy director of the Johnson House Middle earlier than founding his firm of about 90 workers in 2013.
The lander is a 14ft (4.3 meter) hexagon-shaped craft with six legs, and is aimed in the direction of a touchdown at crater Malapert A near the lunar south pole. Odysseus is carrying a payload of six Nasa science devices and expertise demonstrations as a part of the company’s business lunar payload providers initiative
Intuitive Machines have been – in public – pleased with the lander’s progress to date in the direction of the moon.
It has efficiently been sending photographs again to the Earth.
Intuitive Machines efficiently transmitted its first IM-1 mission photographs to Earth on February 16, 2024. The photographs had been captured shortly after separation from @SpaceX‘s second stage on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon underneath @NASA‘s CLPS initiative. pic.twitter.com/9LccL6q5tF
— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 17, 2024
Maanvi Singh
The Odysseus is anticipated to land at 6.24pm ET/11.24pm GMT.
Intuitive Machines had initially stated it will land at 5.49pm ET, then 5.30pm, and this morning stated it might land even earlier at 4.24pm. However finally flight controllers determined to circle the Odysseus across the moon yet another time earlier than touchdown, delaying the occasion by two hours.
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus goals to land on the moon
Welcome to the Guardian’s reside protection of the most recent try to efficiently soft-land the very first non-public lander on our closest neighbor – the moon!
Final week SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off in the midst of the US evening from Nasa’s Kennedy House Middle, dispatching Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander on its 230,000 miles (370,000km) journey.
At this time the Odysseus lander is trying to make the perilous descent. Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ goals to place its 14ft-tall, six-legged lander down simply 186 miles (300km) shy of the moon’s south pole
Solely 5 international locations – the US, Russia, China, India and Japan – have scored a lunar touchdown and no non-public enterprise has but completed so. The US has not returned to the moon’s floor for the reason that Apollo program ended greater than 5 many years in the past.
Keep tuned for what may very well be a nerve-racking journey …
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