Completed · Success
Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, called Odysseus, softly landed near Malapert A in the South Pole region of the Moon.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SpaceX Falcon 9
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Odysseus: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · NASA CLPS postflight navigation SPKs · eight reconstructed cruise windows and powered descent · provider uncertainty 2 km (3σ) in cruise and 100 m (3σ) in descent · February 16, 2024 to February 22, 2024
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 12, 2026
- EagleCam Updates: Public Comments by Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims
- Odysseus — NASA CLPS/PDS reconstructed flight source — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- Odysseus — NASA CLPS/PDS descent and first ground contact — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Odysseus — surface site — native fixed landing-site source — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- Commercial Lunar Payload Services - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims
- NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Liftoff! Intuitive Machines Lander Carrying NASA Science Begins Journey to the Moon - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA/TM-20250010290: IM-1 navigation Doppler lidar performance and reconstruction — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- ROLSES design and actual operations aboard Odysseus, arXiv2603.22600 — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context