soooooo Odysseus's laser range finders aren't working. They are using NASA's LIDAR now (part of why they needed the extra orbit) but that doesn’t sound ideal.
Happy moon landing day (hopefully!) Intuitive Machines’ lander is set to attempt the first soft moon landing for a U.S. spacecraft since Apollo 17 in 1972. The attempt will be at 5:30 pm ET, you can watch on NASA TV.
IM-1 update: The planned trajectory maneuvers for the Odysseus lander are complete, according to Intuitive Machines. The first two maneuvers were so successful, they didn’t need to execute the third.
If luck is on our side, there will be a moon landing attempt on February 22. If Intuitive Machines succeeds, this will be the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on the moon since the Apollo missions.
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@chiraag I think there's a lot more nuance to this discussion than you're allowing, and that there are definite advantages (as well as huge disadvantages and red flags) to the rise of commercial spaceflight.