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IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned 30 degree angle.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander beamed back its first images from space of Earth. Intuitive Machines On February 22, IM's Odysseus spacecraft became the first private craft to soft-land ...
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 ...
The Odysseus lander, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed on the moon on Feb. 22, making history as the first commercial craft to reach the lunar surface and the first U.S. spacecraft ...
A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole on Thursday, the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and ...
On 31 May 2019, NASA announced it had awarded Intuitive Machines $77 million to build and launch their Nova-C Moon lander. [3] [4] [5] On 13 April 2020, IM, under contract to carry NASA science instruments to the Moon on a robotic spacecraft, said that its first lunar mission would target a deep, narrow valley named Vallis Schröteri.
Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander successfully touched down, and mission control confirmed the Odysseus, or IM-1, spacecraft is upright, according to a company post.
An ILO-X Precursor instruments were launched on the Intuitive Machines Nova-C IM-1 mission on 15 February 2024. [26] IM-1 landed on the Moon on 22 February, about halfway through the lunar day. Since the lander is unprotected from the cold lunar night, it was only expected to operate until sunset, about seven earth days.