Odysseus
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it […]
Odysseus is the first spacecraft built by a private company to land on the lunar surface. The United States has pulled off its first lunar landing in more than half a century with a spacecraft built and operated by a Texas-based private company. Odysseus, an uncrewed robot lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines with funding […]
5:58 p.m. ET, February 22, 2024 Odysseus is unexpectedly going to try to use NASA’s experimental Lidar for navigation From CNN’s Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles An apparent issue with Odysseus’ navigation systems will force the lander to rely on experimental technology. “Intuitive Machines made the decision to reassign the primary navigation sensors from Odysseus….to use the […]
A robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company is scheduled to reach the moon Thursday evening. If all goes according to plan, the unmanned Odysseus, which is operated by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, is scheduled to touch down on the lunar surface at 6:24 . . .
Updated landing time Denise Chow NASA announced that Intuitive Machines will add one extra orbit around the moon before attempting to land Odysseus on the surface. The maneuver will push the landing time back, with a new targeted touchdown of 6:24 p.m. ET. The landing time has shifted a few times today (and in days […]
On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a Houston company got closer to reaching the moon. The company, Intuitive Machines, announced that its Odysseus spacecraft had fired its engine for six minutes and 48 seconds, slowing it enough to be pulled by the moon’s gravity into a circular orbit 57 miles above the […]
John Raoux/AP The Odysseus lunar lander, developed by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Florida on February 15, 2024. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with . . .
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