{"id":777667,"date":"2024-02-22T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777667"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:35:50","slug":"intuitive-machines-odysseus-spacecraft-attempts-to-land-on-the-moon-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777667","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Machines&#8217; Odysseus Spacecraft Attempts to Land on the Moon: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/02\/22\/science\/moon-landing-odysseus#this-is-the-cargo-being-carried-by-the-odysseus-moon-lander\" data-source-id=\"100000009310766\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-meta css-1g3itdy\">\n<div class=\"css-yf9s2t\" data-testid=\"live-blog-byline\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1ppjtba\"><span class=\"css-xtl8uk\"><time aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-iqvqz5\" datetime=\"2024-02-22T18:00:06.154Z\"><\/p>\n<p><span data-time=\"abs\" class=\"css-1656jku\">Feb. 22, 2024, 1:00 p.m. ET<\/span><span data-time=\"rel\" class=\"css-xwx5dt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/time><span class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">Feb. 22, 2024, 1:00 p.m. ET<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><button aria-label=\"Copy a shareable link to your clipboard\" class=\"css-19moa8e\" type=\"button\" id=\"share-link-https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/02\/22\/science\/moon-landing-odysseus\/this-is-the-cargo-being-carried-by-the-odysseus-moon-lander\" data-testid=\"copy-link\"><svg class=\"css-1wydbmw\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M10.59,13.41C11,13.8 11,14.44 10.59,14.83C10.2,15.22 9.56,15.22 9.17,14.83C7.22,12.88 7.22,9.71 9.17,7.76V7.76L12.71,4.22C14.66,2.27 17.83,2.27 19.78,4.22C21.73,6.17 21.73,9.34 19.78,11.29L18.29,12.78C18.3,11.96 18.17,11.14 17.89,10.36L18.36,9.88C19.54,8.71 19.54,6.81 18.36,5.64C17.19,4.46 15.29,4.46 14.12,5.64L10.59,9.17C9.41,10.34 9.41,12.24 10.59,13.41M13.41,9.17C13.8,8.78 14.44,8.78 14.83,9.17C16.78,11.12 16.78,14.29 14.83,16.24V16.24L11.29,19.78C9.34,21.73 6.17,21.73 4.22,19.78C2.27,17.83 2.27,14.66 4.22,12.71L5.71,11.22C5.7,12.04 5.83,12.86 6.11,13.65L5.64,14.12C4.46,15.29 4.46,17.19 5.64,18.36C6.81,19.54 8.71,19.54 9.88,18.36L13.41,14.83C14.59,13.66 14.59,11.76 13.41,10.59C13,10.2 13,9.56 13.41,9.17Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\" class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Assembly of the Nova-C lander at the company\u2019s headquarters in Houston.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Intuitive Machines<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Odysseus spacecraft is hexagonal in shape with six landing legs, standing about 14 feet tall and five feet wide. For fans of \u201cDr. Who,\u201d the science fiction television show, the body of the lander is roughly the size of the Tardis, the time-traveling spacecraft that, on the outside, looks like an old British police telephone booth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">NASA is the main customer for the Intuitive Machines flight, paying the company $77 million to deliver six instruments to the lunar surface. They are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">\n<ul class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1ie9vib ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A laser retroreflector array to bounce back laser beams fired from lunar orbit. That will act as a precise location marker for Odysseus. During the Apollo missions, astronauts left similar retroreflectors on the moon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A LIDAR instrument will precisely measure the spacecraft\u2019s altitude and velocity as it descends to the surface. LIDAR is similar to radar, except that it uses laser light instead of radio waves.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A stereo camera will capture video of the plume of dust kicked up by the lander\u2019s engines during landing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A low-frequency radio receiver will measure the effects of charged particles near the lunar surface on radio signals. That will provide information that could aid the design of future radio observation on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The Lunar Node-1 navigation beacon seeks to demonstrate an autonomous navigation system.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The lander\u2019s propellant tank includes a NASA instrument that uses radio waves to measure how much propellant remains in the tank.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The lander is also carrying a few other payloads, including a camera built by students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla.; a precursor instrument for a future moon telescope; and an art project by Jeff Koons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"css-182hr0m\" data-testid=\"Show-More\" type=\"button\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Show more<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/02\/22\/science\/moon-landing-odysseus?rand=772170\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 22, 2024, 1:00 p.m. ET Feb. 22, 2024, 1:00 p.m. ET Assembly of the Nova-C lander at the company\u2019s headquarters in Houston.Credit&#8230;Intuitive Machines The Odysseus spacecraft is hexagonal in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-times-space-cosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}