SpaceX launched 'Odysseus', also known as NOVA-C, as part of the Intuitive Machines 1 Mission (IM-1) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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SpaceX launched 'Odysseus', also known as NOVA-C, as part of the Intuitive Machines 1 Mission (IM-1) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aim of the mission is to place Odysseus at crater Malapert A near the lunar south pole. Odysseus carries five NASA payloads, and commercial cargo. Odysseus’s payloads will study interactions between the lunar surface and plumes, which are clouds of gas. They will also perform radio astronomy experiments, and study how the lunar surface interacts with the space weather. Odysseus will also demonstrate precision landing technologies, and exhibit communication and navigation mode capabilities. First, Odysseus will be placed into an Earth orbit of size 185 kilometres x 60,000 kilometres.


      NASA selected Intuitive Machines to build a lander as part of the space agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services Initiative (CLPS), in which a commercial firm receives a contract.

     

     

 

     


Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

CEO- Elon Musk
COO- Gwynne Shotwell
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