CLPS Task Order 2IM: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- February 15, 2024
- Declared end
- March 23, 2024
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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Description published by the archive
The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission launched a Nova-C lander, called Odyssesus, on Feb 15, 2024. Odyssesus landed on Feb 22, 2024 at (80.13S, 1.44E), about 25km east of the Malapert A crater near the south pole region of the Moon, carrying six NASA payloads and commercial cargo. The scientific objectives of the NASA provided payloads included: studies of plume-surface interactions (SCALPSS), radio astronomy and space weather interactions with the lunar surface (ROLSES), and a laser retroreflector array (LRA). These payloads have archived data in the PDS. Odysseus also carried NASA tech demo payloads to demonstrate precision landing technologies (Navigation Doppler Lidar, NDL), communication and navigation node capabilities (Lunar Node-1, LN-1), and measure the quantity of liquid propellant in micro-gravity environments (Radio Frequency Mass Gauge, RFMG). These payloads have not archived data in the PDS.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.clps_to_2im
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/