Intuitive Devices’ lunar lander is well on its means to the moon after introducing easily on Thursday, however it took care of to break a couple of amazing images of Planet while it was still nearhome The firm shared the first set of images from the IM-1 objective on X today after verifying in an earlier blog post that the spacecraft is “in excellent health.” In addition to a sight of Planet and some partial selfies of the Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, you can also see the SpaceX Falcon 9 2nd phase dropping away distant after splitting up.
Intuitive Devices effectively transferred its first IM-1 objective images to Planet on February 16, 2024. The images were caught quickly after splitting up from @SpaceX’s 2nd phase on Intuitive Devices’ first trip to the Moon under @NASA’s CLPS campaign. pic.twitter.com/9LccL6q5tF
— Intuitive Devices (@Int_Machines) February 17, 2024
Odysseus gets on track to make its moon touchdown effort on February 22, and up until now seems doing well. The group uploaded a collection of updates on X at the end of the week verifying the lander has actually passed some crucial turning points in advance of its goal, consisting of engine shooting. This significant “the first-ever in-space ignition of a liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine,” according to Intuitive Devices.