Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is tipped on its side after its touchdown on the moon, but it's still able to send back data.
Odysseus lander is tipped on its side after getting tripped up during its touchdown near the south pole of the moon. The good news? The plucky robotic spacecraft is nevertheless able to send back data.
“In normal software development for spacecraft, this is the kind of thing that would have taken a month of writing down the math, cross-checking it with your colleagues, doing some simple calculations to prove the theory by putting it into a simulation, running that simulation 10,000 times evaluating performance,” Crain said. “Our team basically did that in an hour and a half. And it worked.”
On the day of the landing, Intuitive Machines said Odysseus was upright, but today Altemus said that mistaken assessment was based on “stale telemetry” from the lander’s fuel gauges. “As we get more telemetry and turn more things on, we’ll be updating you over the coming days the analysis and the reconstruction of the landing,” Altemus said.
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