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The US private space company’s lunar lander has been successfully launched and is flying towards the moon. If it reaches the lunar south pole next week, as expected, it will become the world’s first civilian lunar lander.
This is reporter Kim Ja-min.
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“3,2,1 ignition, takeoff”
The flames come out with an earth-shaking roar and rockets soar into the sky.
On the 15th local time, the Odysseus, a lunar lander developed by a private US space company, was launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
The Odysseus reached its target orbit 48 minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX broadcast
“The lunar module has separated from the Falcon 9 rocket.”
With solar charging, wireless communication was soon achieved. Ulysses will fly in space for a week and attempt to land on the surface of the Moon’s South Pole on the 22nd of this month.
It is the size of a public telephone booth and contains six pieces of lunar exploration equipment.
Its primary mission is to observe the lunar environment ahead of NASA and NASA’s lunar exploration project planned for 2026.
Last month, another private space development company launched a lunar lander, but failed due to a fuel leak problem.
Steve Artemus / CEO, Intuitive Machines
“We studied all the previous lunar missions very diligently. We looked at their designs and looked for failures and correlations.”
If Odysseus succeeds in landing on the Moon, it will become the world’s first civilian lunar lander and the first American spacecraft to land on the Moon 52 years after Apollo 17.
This is Kim Ja-min from TV Chosun.
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