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Intuitive Machines was one of three service providers awarded task orders in 2019 for delivery of NASA science payloads to the Moon. [8] The IM-1 lunar lander, named Odysseus (pronounced / ə ˈ d ɪ s i ə s / ə-DISS-ee-əs), was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 [6] rocket on 15 February 2024, reached lunar orbit on 21 February, and landed on ...
The Odysseus lander is not designed to survive the lunar night, which lasts about two weeks. [24] The lander has a chip with works of 200 artists, including works of Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jeff Koons and Bram Reijnders. [25] [26] The lander carries the sculpture Moon Phases by Jeff Koons within its payload.
The company launched its first mission, with Nova-C spending seven days travelling to the Moon. On February 22, 2024, Intuitive Machines landed its Nova-C class lander named Odysseus IM-1 spacecraft on the Moon making the first landing by the US in more than 50 years since Apollo 17 touched down in 1972.
IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus launched on 15 February 2024 towards the Moon via Falcon 9 on a direct intercept trajectory and later landed in the south polar region of the Moon on 22 February 2024 and became the first successful private lander and the first to do so using cryogenic propellants. Though it landed successfully, one of the lander's legs ...
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to hire companies to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon.Most landing sites are near the lunar south pole [1] [2] where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to support the Artemis lunar program.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander, also called Odysseus, Odie or IM-1, on the moon's surface on February 24 at 1:57 p.m. ET. - NASA ...
The Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander captured a fish-eye view of Schomberger crater on the moon after touching down. - Intuitive Machines. Hours before Odie’s landing, the spacecraft ...
On the coming flight, the lander will carry a mix of commercial cargo and NASA science instruments. Odysseus is expected to touch down near the moon’s south pole, a region that has long been ...