Intuitive machines announced Friday morning that its Aidian The surface mission of the moon, which descended towards it, ended.
“With the sun’s direction, solar panel’s acquaintance, and extremely cold temperatures in the pit, intuitive machines do not expect to be recharged from Ethnic,” The company said In a statement, “the mission ends and teams continue to estimate the data collected throughout the mission.”
AidianA commercially developed Lander, on Thursday, at Lunar level, locally touched the local time at 11:28 am (17:28 UTC). The investigation came within 250 meters of its target landing site in the moon’s Mons Moton region. It is a southern place where within a few degrees of the lunar south pole, any investigation has landed on the moon.
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This marked the second lunar mission of a Houston -based company. The first one, which was a little more than a year ago, had a problem with his laser range Finders before landing. Although he touched softly, the first landler reached the moon, which is slightly faster than his purpose – and a place where there is a steep slope. He broke the landing leg and removed it. However, even in this sequence, Odisis The mission was able to generate electricity and complete a significant part of its scientific goals during a week of activity on the moon.
Intuitive machines have not yet said exactly what happened AidianThe last moments before reaching the moon on Thursday. However, at a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Company officials confirmed That they have another problem with the laser range Finders. Because of this, the spacecraft, once again, did not know where it was, or how much it was from the surface of the moon.
Aidian The mission was funded by NASA in a significant section. The space agency has begun hiring business companies such as intuitive machines to conduct scientific experiments at the lunar level as it is ready for a human research program near the South Pole in the moon.