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Intuitive Machines, the company that launched the "Odysseus" lander with funding from NASA, has announced in a series ofthat the historic first landing of a commercial craft on the lunar surface has failed to wake back up after a chaotic landing.as it made Moonfall. And although the Houston-based company has made extensive efforts to spin it differently, it was essentially dead on arrival.
. "This confirms that Odie has permanently faded after cementing its legacy into history as the first commercial lunar lander to land on the Moon."Despite its hopes to the contrary, Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission has, as we've seen since Odysseus was launched, been marred by what seems in hindsight to be some pretty glaring design issues.
Taken on February 27th, flight controllers commanded Odysseus to capture a new image using its narrow-field-of-view camera. Previous attempts to send photos from landing and the days following returned unusable imagery. After successfully transmitting the image to Earth, flight…, the mission wasn't a complete failure. And it did manage to send back some important data about what went wrong in the process, too.
"The IM-1 mission achieved a historic landing farther south on the Moon than any vehicle ever has, laying the groundwork for our second mission," reads afrom Intuitive Machines. "IM-2 targets the Moon’s south pole at the Shackleton Connecting Ridge to search for water ice that future missions could potentially process for propulsion and life support."
Given the precedent that SpaceX has set when it comes to repeated slips and fumbles, Intuitive Machines' lander launch is being taken as a win — and who are we, as mere Earthlings, to judge success on the Moon?
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