Odysseus Scheduled for a moon landing today a first in half century

February 22, 2024

DENVER, Colo., Feb 22, 2024 (247marketnews.com) – (NASDAQ:LUNR) discussed in this article.

Houston based Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) nailed the lunar orbit burn on Wednesday and is now about to attempt the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century.

Odysseus the six-legged lunar surface lander robot is scheduled to start it’s final descent from lunar orbit today starting at 1400 CST.

Flight controllers commanded a lunar correction maneuver to raise Odysseus’ orbit overnight and updated the anticipated touchdown time to 1524 CST.

The IM-1 mission landing is being streamed today at https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1  and NASA has it’s stream here https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/intuitive-machines-1-lunar-landing/ NASA coverage should start around 2PM CST.

Odysseus is carrying a sophisticated suite of scientific instruments and technology demonstrations for NASA and several other commercial customers designed to operate for seven days on solar power before the sun sets over the polar landing site.

NASA’s latest payload, a key part of its lunar exploration program, aims to gather crucial data on space weather and its interactions with the moon’s surface. Additionally, the project will delve into radio astronomy and various elements of the lunar environment. This initiative is vital in paving the way for future lunar landers and aligns with NASA’s ambitious plan to send astronauts back to the moon later this decade.

The automated Odysseus spacecraft has been orbiting the moon at an altitude of approximately 57 miles (92 kilometers) since entering lunar orbit last Wednesday. This event occurred six days following its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Named Odysseus, the spacecraft is reported to be in outstanding condition as it continues its lunar orbit, situated about 239,000 miles (384,000 kilometers) away from Earth. It has been actively sending flight data and images of the moon back to the mission control center of Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) in Houston, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

If the landing succeeds, the IM-1 mission would represent the first controlled descent to the lunar surface by a U.S. spacecraft since Apollo 17 in 1972, when NASA’s last crewed moon mission landed there with astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.

As of now, only a select group of four countries has successfully landed spacecraft on the moon. These nations include the former Soviet Union, China, India, and, as of last month, Japan has joined this exclusive list. Notably, the United States stands alone as the only country to have achieved the milestone of sending astronauts to walk on the lunar surface.

In January the lunar landing mission Peregrine Mission 1 (TO2-AB), or the Peregrine Lunar Lander, carrying scientific and other payloads to the Moon as part of the NASA CLPS initiative, was planned to touch down on the lunar surface on Sinus Viscositatis but failed and deorbited and burned up upon reentry to earth’s atmosphere over the south pacific.

Odysseus is in lunar orbit right now, about to attempt the first U.S. touchdown, today. Godspeed IM-1 Odysseus.

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