The Odyssey spacecraft went into sleep mode: details

Spacecraft “Odyssey”

Intuitive Machines

American lander “Odyssey”, which is the first in 50 years landed on the moon, with the onset of dusk it lost power and went into sleep mode. It completed its mission a week after landing.

Intuitive Machines, an aerospace company paid $118 million by NASA to build and launch Odyssey, said the team received a final “farewell signal” from the spacecraft before it got dark at the moon’s south pole. writes Reuters.

“Goodnight, Odie. We hope to hear from you again.” – says the Intuitive Machines message. Odi is a gentle nickname given to the spacecraft by the engineers.

Earlier, the company claimed that they intended to program the Odyssey to “call home” to the company’s ground control center in Houston. This will happen if the spacecraft has enough solar energy to wake up in three weeks – then the next sunrise is expected over its landing site.

Also earlier, the developers reported that the space module will most likely discharge after the sixth full day of stay on the moon, when the sun will sink low above the lunar horizon and solar energy will not be produced in sufficient volume.

However, Intuitive Machines later said that Odyssey was “still pushing”, so controllers were scrambling to download the last stream of data from space before communication with it was lost.

We will remind the first photos from space “Odyssey” sent to the Earth still on the way to the Moon.

On February 22 at 18:23 EST, it launched into the south polar region of the Moon. Immediately after that, it became known that he caught his “foot” on the surface and fell over to the side

However, later he did and sent the first photos from the surface of the satellite to Earth.