The lunar lander "Odshus" developed by the American "Intuition Machine" company, landing on the moon on Thursday (February 22), Eastern Time.
Xinhua News Agency reported that this is the first time that the United States spacecraft landed for the moon after more than 50 years.
Odysseus Lunar Lunar Lottery Last Thursday (15th), a "Falcon 9" rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The United States Astronautics confirmed that at 6:23 pm on the 22nd of the Eastern Time (at 7:23 am on the 23rd of Singapore time), Odos landed on the moon.Odshus carried a variety of scientific instruments and commercial loads of the American Aerospace Administration.The US Aerospace Administration said these instruments help to prepare for the moon in the future.
This is the first time that the United States Aerospace in the United States has landed after the moon landing mission on the 17th of the United States in 1972. It is also the first time that private enterprises have completed this task.
On February 15th, Odushis took the "Falcon 9" Rockets from the US Space Exploration Technology Company from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The Odshus lander is a hexagonal column, which is 4 meters high, 1.57 meters wide, and has six landing legs.According to the US Space Agency, the task target includes the interaction between the engine feathers of the lander and the surface of the moon, the interaction of radio astronomy, the interaction of the surface of the space weather and the surface of the moon, the precise landing technology and communication and navigation capabilities of the lander.
The U.S. government announced in 2019 that the "Artemis" Lunar Lunar Monthment Plan was originally planned to send US astronauts to the moon again in 2024. Later, due to insufficient budget and other reasons, it was announced that the plan to return to the moon to the moon was announced.Time delay.
Intuitive Machines is one of the next moon lander contractors for the "Moon Business Languard Service Plan" of the United States Aerospace Administration.The plan aims to transport scientific experimental equipment and goods to the surface of the moon, laying the foundation for the "Artemis" moon landing plan.
The lunar lander developed by another private enterprise aerospace robot technology company "Pealfa" was launched in January, but the promotion system failed shortly after the departure, and the moon landing plan announced failure.