NASA, SpaceX, Intuitive Machines First Moon Mission

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From Space.com:
"Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beams home 1st photos from lunar surface"

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machine ... update-lro

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[Graeme1858]

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beams home 1st photos from lunar surface:


https://www.space.com/intuitive-machine ... ign=MANUAL

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From Ars Technica:
"Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/n ... ing-short/

Success or not? I vote for success - with some disappointments.

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From Ars Technica:
“ It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data”

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/i ... etry-data/

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From Ars Technica:
“ Here’s what really happened when Odysseus first touched the Moon”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02 ... pple-over/

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[helicon]

Kind of unfortunate Stephen.
But one of the things the mission accomplished was building a public realization that commercial space ventures outside of the giant NASA contractors usually prone to delays and cost overruns are possible. Funding for start-ups in this space is extraordinarily healthy at the moment with investment firms writing billions in checks to hundreds of small firms.

[Graeme1858]

Goodnight, Odysseus. Intuitive Machines' private moon lander goes offline — but could it rise again?

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machine ... ign=MANUAL


Graeme