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After a successful launch, Intuitive Machine’s robotic Odysseus spacecraft beamed home its first images from space. In a post on X, Intuitive Machines wrote that the spacecraft 'successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024.” The images were captured one day after the spacecraft blasted off from
’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to the Houston-based company, the four images they selected were chosen from hundreds of images taken by the lander's cameras. These cameras were programmed to take five images every five minutes for the first two hours after Odysseus separated from the rocket’s second stage. https://twitter.
is the main sponsor of the mission, paying Intuitive Machines about $118 million to deliver its payload to the moon. hopes that if this mission is successful it will jumpstart the lunar economy ahead of future crewed missions. The space agency plans to land astronauts there later this decade. The six navigation and tech experiments in the lander’s payload that will collect data critical for these missions.
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