Odysseus landed on its side instead of landing at a vertical angle, which disrupted communication with Earth. Some of the antennas were blocked by the inverted spacecraft, and those that remained exposed were too close to the ground, leading to patchy communications.
The United States' private lunar probe Odysseus is expected to cease operations on Tuesday, March 5, 3, after its horizontal landing near the south pole of the Moon shortened its mission. Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that built and flew the spacecraft, said it will continue to collect data until the sun no longer shines on the solar panels.
The spaceship, which landed too fast and got caught in one of its six legs, fell on its side. Some of the antennas were blocked by the inverted spacecraft, and those that remained exposed were too close to the ground, leading to fragmented communications. The solar panels also came too close to the surface, which is not ideal in the mountainous topography.
Ground crews did not activate the spacecraft's laser navigation switch before launch from Florida on February 15. The miss was not discovered until Odysseus circled the moon, forcing flight controllers to rely on a NASA laser navigation device that was on board only as an experiment.
Odysseus is the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in over 50 years, and has led experiments for NASA, its main funder. Despite the horizontal landing, Intuitive Machines became the first private company to join the elite group of countries and companies that successfully landed on the moon. Another American company, Astrobotic Technology, tried to do this last month, but failed to reach the moon due to a fuel leak.
to locate the spaceship Odysseus (Intuitive Machines)
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Where do they fart these granny stories? It's really easy to notice that a photo is fabricated. It looks just like some stone taken in close-up with some kind of lighting fixture in the background. And the spaceship that is spread there like in the graphics of the Megason game