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☆ Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon lander because somebody forgot to flip a switch before launch
  + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A serendipitous moment, a NASA experiment, and frantic, innovative software engineering rescued the company's Odysseus lander from what could have been a catastrophic error — a switch that didn't get flipped before launch. NASA TVIt was a "spicy" landing, Altemus said. AdvertisementThe Houston-based company flew Odysseus, which is its Nova-C-model lander, to the moon on a $118 million NASA contract. Its success marks the first commercial moon landing ever and NASA's first return to the lunar surface since 1972. It was risky — the NASA lasers were on the lander to test whether they worked in space at all — but it was better than nothing.
Persons: —, Steve Altemus, Altemus, Odysseus, Frankenstein, Robert Braun, Tim Crain, Crain, Braun Organizations: Service, NASA, Business, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Locations: Mars
☆ Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon after historic touchdown
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. Steve Altemus, chief executive officer and cofounder of Intuitive Machines, uses a model to represent how the Odysseus spacecraft landed on the moon. ‘A punch in the stomach’Notably, Intuitive Machines realized prior to descent that Odysseus had a faulty piece of navigation equipment. The hack ultimately worked, and the spacecraft made it to the lunar surface in operational condition. All told, Odysseus will likely be able to spend about nine days operating on the lunar surface, according to Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines’ chief technology officer.
Persons: Odysseus, Odie ”, Steve Altemus, NASA “, ” Altemus, Altemus, Joel Kearns, ” Kearns, “, Tim Crain, Odie, ”, ” Crain Organizations: CNN, Machines, NASA, NASA’s Langley Research Center, Apollo
☆ Intuitive Machines jumps in wild trading after moon landing
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Shares of Intuitive Machines jumped in early trading on Friday after the company's successful first moon landing. The Houston, Texas company confirmed that the IM-1 mission lander was standing upright and sending data back to Earth. "Odysseus has found his new home," Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines' CTO and IM-1 mission director, said from the company's mission control. Intuitive Machines stock initially ripped 40% higher from its previous close of $8.28 a share before paring gains with heavy trading volume. Intuitive Machines went public via a SPAC a year ago and shares had steadily slid to all-time lows near $2 in January.
Persons: Odysseus, Tim Crain Locations: U.S, Houston , Texas
☆ NASA is back on the moon — with the first commercial lunar landing ever
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
The IM-1 mission's landing helps catapult the US into a 21st-century space race to the moon's south pole. AdvertisementAn American moon lander touched down on the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years on Thursday. For its last lunar landing attempt in January, NASA partnered with the Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic Technology to send its Peregrine spacecraft to the moon. Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beamed back its first images from space earlier this month. So NASA and Intuitive Machines have officially put the new commercial lunar era in swing, and they're just getting started.
Persons: —, Astrobotic, Odysseus, Tim Crain, Japan's, Trent Martin, NASA hitches, they're Organizations: NASA, Service, Houston, SpaceX, US, Spaceflight, Payload, Pittsburgh, Technology, Machines Locations: Russia, India, Japan, China
☆ Live updates: Odysseus moon landing
  + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Elise Hammond | Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Intuitive Machines Co-Founder, President, and CEO Steve Altemus talks about the IM-1 Lunar Lander, Nova-C, during a press event, in Houston, in October 2023. Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesIntuitive Machines is a Houston-based company just up the road from NASA's Johnson Space Center, or JSC. It's one of several private-sector companies that have been tasked by the space agency to get robotic landers to the moon as NASA works on separate plans to return its astronauts. But it was later renegotiated, and — all told — Intuitive Machines could receive up to $118 million from NASA for this mission. Its stock has been on a tear recently amid its successes in space, surging up about 80% over the past five days as of Thursday afternoon.
Persons: Steve Altemus, Jonathan Newton, Steve Atlemus, JSC Kamal Ghaffarian, Tim Crain, landers Organizations: Washington Post, NASA's Johnson Space Center, JSC, NASA, Payload Services Locations: Nova, Houston, NASA's
☆ A U.S.-Built Spacecraft Lands on the Moon for the First Time Since 1972
  + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Kenneth Chang | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
For the first time in a half-century, an American-built spacecraft has landed on the moon. The robotic lander was the first U.S. vehicle on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, the closing chapter in humanity’s astonishing achievement of sending people to the moon and bringing them all back alive. The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The landing time came and went in silence as flight controllers waited to hear confirmation of success. Then Tim Crain, the chief technology officer of Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that built Odysseus, reported that a faint signal from the spacecraft had been detected.
Persons: Odysseus, Tim Crain Locations: American, U.S, Houston
☆ Intuitive Machines snags the first commercial moon landing ever. Its Odysseus lander returns NASA to the moon after 52 years.
  + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Intuitive Machines mission control reported that it was receiving pings from the lander, which means it touched down at about 6:24 p.m. Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beamed back its first images from space earlier this month. Intuitive MachinesNASA has several CLPS missions scheduled over the next two years, including two more with Intuitive Machines. AdvertisementEven later this year, a different Intuitive Machines spacecraft is scheduled to head to the western edge of the moon's near side. So NASA and Intuitive Machines have officially put the new commercial lunar era in swing, and they're just getting started.
Persons: Astrobotic, Odysseus, Tim Crain, —, Japan's, Trent Martin, NASA hitches, they're Organizations: Houston, NASA, SpaceX, US, Spaceflight, Payload, Pittsburgh, Technology, Machines Locations: Russia, India, Japan, China
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