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Intuitive Machines used mission lasers to replace the craft lasers needed to measure distance during landing on the lunar surface (archive.is)
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[โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Saw in some article the reason for their lasers not working was they forgot to flip a physical switch on the spacecraft in preflight checkout... Yikes,..

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yup, that must be a pretty embarrassing mistake for whatever hardware team was in charge of that switch. The software team really saved the day on this one. I still can't believe that they rewrote the navigation software on the fly, uploaded it to the lander, and it worked!

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