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| | | | | First lander to drill on the Moon's south pole delayed for good Jeff Foust reports that NASA will provide an additional $12.4 million to Intuitive Machines for itsupcoming second Moon landing mission (IM-2) part of the agency's CLPS program for work related to changing the landing | |
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| | | | | NASA honored Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong by naming an operations building for the agency's Orion spacecraft after the first moonwalker. See how Armstrong's memory lives on here. | |
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| | | | | On 22 February 2024, the US 'New Space' company Intuitive Machines became the first private company to land on the Moon with its IM-1 Odysseus mission. The landing site is located around 800 kilometres north of the lunar South Pole, east of the Malapert A crater. According to Intuitive Machines, the landing took place just 1500 metres from the intended landing site, meaning that Odysseus is located in the south of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin which measures over 2000 kilometres in diameter. The exact landing coordinates are 80.13 degrees South and 1.44 degrees East. The lander is on a surface at an incline of 12 degrees and topographical height of 2579 metres above the reference 'selenoid' - a modelled 'lunar surface' with identical gravitational pull. | |
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| | | One of the U.S. Air Force's two top-secret X-37B unmanned, reusable space plane is back on solid ground after a record-setting 780 days circling the planet. Just what it was doing up there since its launch in 2017 remains largely classified, but the marathon mission comes as the United States, and potential adversaries, is increasingly exploring new options for getting payloads outside of the Earth's atmosphere, or otherwise accessing space, that are faster, more flexible, and are less predictable. | ||
