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Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had landed.

Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had landed.

Research demonstrates how a series of lunar images could provide key navigational data TROY, NY (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PR) — In order for future lunar exploration missions to be successful and land more precisely, engineers must equip spacecraft with technologies that allow them to “see” where they are and travel to where they need to be. Finding specific locations amid the moon’s complicated topography is not a simple task. In research recently published in the  AIAA Journa...

TROY, N.Y. — In order for future lunar exploration missions to be successful and land more precisely, engineers must equip spacecraft with technologies that allow them to “see” where they are and travel to where they need to be. Finding specific locations amid the moon’s complicated topography is not a simple task. In research recently published in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, a multidisciplinary team of engineers demonstrated how a series of lunar images can ...