There’s Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus started heading towards the moon who could write history the first privately built landing gear Touching the surface of the moon. The lander was sent into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which already has 17 flights under its belt and could even fly again in the future as it returned safely to Earth at the company’s Landing Zone 1. Both SpaceX and Intuitive Machines have confirmed that Odysseus has successfully deployed and begun its multi-day journey to the moon.
Specifically, Intuitive Machines looked at the Malapert A crater near the Moon’s south pole as the landing site for Odyssey. The spacecraft can operate for about 14 Earth days when powered by sunlight, but the company hopes the flight will take place by February 22. Odysseus, the first of the Nova-C-type intuitive machines, is scheduled for release this year. five NASA payloads in addition to commercial payloads.
The objectives of the mission included the demonstration of a precision landing and the testing of certain communication and navigation node capabilities. It will also observe how rocket plumes and space weather interact with the lunar surface. IM-1 was one of the missions selected by NASA to carry scientific instruments to the Moon over the next few years as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The The first of the CLPS missions Unfortunately, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission 1 has taken off. anomaly This prevented the lander from pointing its solar panels at the sun, causing a fuel leak. Peregrine never made it to the moon and ended his journey to burn When it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
