Intuitive Machines Reveals Why Its Moon Lander Faceplanted Into a Crater

At the beginning of this year, a place slipped across the surface of a place and stretched side by side in a cold, dark crater. Intuitive machines’ Athena Landeri was declared dead on the arrival of the moon. Now the company presented a report that detects the chain of discussions that caused his death.

Athena touched the moon Thursday, March 6, passed through space after a week that lasted a week. After a less ideal touch, Aysar Lander ended in a shallow crater in the Mouns Mouton region of the month, 820 feet (250 meters) on the target landing site. During a profitable gain on Wednesday, intuitive machines listed three factors affecting the ability to land in Athens, Spacenews declare.

The first issue was to be related to Lander’s laser altimeter, designed to help assess the distance from the month during landing. “In the last stage of the enemy, we saw signal noise and distortion that did not allow accurate height readings.

The Houston-based company also accused the conditions in the South Pole region of the month. According to Altemus, the low shifts and topography of the sunlight and topography “Long shadows and landing, creating long shifts and weak lighting conditions.”

The third factor, which resulted in Athen’s lunar collapse, was not able to recognize the craters from the lower height of Landerin. Intuitive machines come to photos that take place by the Bear’s Bear again. These images are held at a height of 62 miles (100 kilometers), and therefore “We could not think exactly how the South Pole looked at low altitudes with the lighting conditions of the South Pole,” Alemus said.

The company is treated as a set of lessons learned because the athone’s failed mission is preparing to launch the third sandor for a while next year. “We added a different and unnecessary scientist to the sensor set, and we had a more serious and extreme flight than we did before,” he said. Space. “We combined an extra lighting-independent sensor for surface speed measurements. We have expanded the area crater database for advanced navigation along the surface of the month.”

Intuitive machines Started the first lunar landerOdysseus, in February 2024. Reached the lunar surface, but the landing was not completely smooth. One of the legs of Lander was caught during the decline, he was raised to his side and lie on top of a rock. The mission has developed the first company for the first company that is the first company that is the first company that is a special host in the month and was used seven days in seven days.

“We will progress forward, we will succeed,” he said. “Land soft, soil steep, ready to work.”