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Fisrt commercial Moon landing ready to go
Ferrari Press Agency Odysseus 1 Ref 15575 14/02/2024 See Ferrari text Pictures must credit: Intuitive Machines The first ever commercial Moon landing is set to take off. US-based space company Intuitive Machines is due to launch its Odysseus lander The plan is for it to land near a crater called Malapert near the Moon’s south pole. The mission follows another private firm’s unsuccessful attempt in January. The attempt by Astrobotic to get its Peregrine lander down was aborted due to a propellant tank leak. The IM1 mission with Odysseus by Intuitive Machines is hoping to make its landing attempt on February 22 providing the launch happened by February 16. The date is dependent on Odysseus leaving Earth on an Elon Musk owned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sometime between February 14 and February 16. The launch window opens at 12:57AM ET on Wednesday. Odysseus is the first of three Nova-C landers Intuitive Machines plans to send to the lunar surface this year. All will have commercial payloads on board and instruments on behalf of US space agency NASA. OPS: Render of the panned IM1 mission. Odysseus on the lunar surface Picture supplied by Ferrari Keywords: IM1, Odysseus, Moon, lunar, lander, commercial, first, Pace X, NASA, South Pole, Malapert crater, render
The first ever commercial Moon landing is set to take off.
US-based space company Intuitive Machines is due to launch its Odysseus lander
The plan is for it to land near a crater called Malapert near the Moon’s south pole.
The mission follows another private firm’s unsuccessful attempt in January.
The attempt by Astrobotic to get its Peregrine lander down was aborted due to a propellant tank leak.
The IM1 mission with Odysseus by Intuitive Machines is hoping to make its landing attempt on February 22 providing the launch happened by February 16.
The date is dependent on Odysseus leaving Earth on an Elon Musk owned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sometime between February 14 and February 16.
The launch window opens at 12:57AM ET on Wednesday.
Odysseus is the first of three Nova-C landers Intuitive Machines plans to send to the lunar surface this year.
All will have commercial payloads on board and instruments on behalf of US space agency NASA.
OPS: Render of the panned IM1 mission.Odysseus separating from the Space X roocket after launch
Pictuyre supplied by Ferrari
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