Intuitive machines have landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after completing this feat For the first time. Unfortunately, like its first attempt, it seems that the company’s spacecraft has pointed to it.
On Thursday evening at 12:30 pm, the lunar landed on the moon surface touched the moon surface. The second private spacecraft to land on the moon this week after falling under the Blue Goast of the firefly Aerospace on March 2.
The Chief Technology Officer of the Divine Machines later said at a press conference that Aitina Moon is somewhere inside a 50 -meter landing zone on Moton, a flat top mountain on the south pole of the moon. But he said the company is still working to determine where, of course, where Aitina has touched.
CEO Steve Ultimus added during the conference that the company does not think that Atina is on the “right attitude” – Space Flight “He probably helped it.”
Altimus otherwise praised the mission, which he said had gone easily than last year’s moon journey.
The rest of Ayatina’s mission is now hanging in balance. The spacecraft, which left for the moon on the moon on February 26, was riding on the moon on 9 rockets, which hopes to examine intuitive machines.
One is an inactive laser retriever array, which is expected to be used to communicate with other incoming or dizziness spacecraft. This is an important piece of technology for the hopes of making NASA’s permanent moon base – so that space agency Intelligent machines were given a contract of 8 4.8 billion Last year to create a communication system. (Of this, only Million is guaranteed 150 million.)
Aitina is also taking ice mining experience for NASA, which the agency hoped to determine whether there were enough natural resources to make fuel or breathing oxygen one day on the moon.
Additional Payload contains a rover called maps that are going to test cellular devices from Nokia, and Solid state storage The first was billed as the “Lunar Data Center”.