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And all the flight controllers, one afteranother, said go, go, go, but to the computer said no and that was less than four minutes before the launch and the ground launch system which is a piece of software, it didn't load and bowing and nasa don't know why that is and it could be that they spotted something the flight controllers didn't and it could be something with one of the components on the system or it could just be software and if it is the latter that will be easily fixed and they could have another go but it if it is one of the system is a could take a lot longer. —— bowing and n...

Magellanic Cloud Gets its First Major Logistics Drone Order

Everything was proceeding normally that day. The big thing that i remember really paying attention to shortly before landing was the weather. Flight controllers are currently monitoring the fog that has limited visibility but is dissipating. Because, obviously, it is just critical to have decent visibility, no big weather issues when youre landing. Flight director Leroy Cain discussing Weather Conditions at present with forecasters here. Leroy was the person in charge. So everybody on their consoles are monitoring their own systems, and theyre all reporting into leroy what theyre seeing. Colum...

(Reuters) -Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, has roughly 10 to 20 hours of battery life left, according to flight controllers who are still in contact with the robot lander. Texas-based Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday its flight controllers were in touch with the Odysseus moon lander and the spacecraft had relayed payload science data and imagery in the morning. NASA paid Intuitive $118 million to build and fly the spacecraft to the moon, carrying science instruments for the U.S. space agency and several commercial customers.

Flight controllers expected to lose contact Tuesday with the dying Odysseus lunar lander just days after it toppled over while landing on the moon.