{"id":185986,"date":"2024-03-25T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/odysseus-lunar-lander-1st-us-craft-on-the-moon-in-50-years-has-died-and-will-not-complete-another-call-home"},"modified":"2024-03-25T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:22:25","slug":"odysseus-lunar-lander-1st-us-craft-on-the-moon-in-50-years-has-died-and-will-not-complete-another-call-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/odysseus-lunar-lander-1st-us-craft-on-the-moon-in-50-years-has-died-and-will-not-complete-another-call-home","title":{"rendered":"Odysseus lunar lander, 1st US craft on the moon in 50 years, has died and will \u2018not complete another call home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/odysseus-lunar-lander-1st-us-craft-on-the-moon-in-50-years-has-died-and-will-not-complete-another-call-home3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Odysseus, which was built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, powered down one week after landing as lunar night began for 14 days. Flight controllers ordered the spacecraft to snooze for three weeks, while the moon\u2019s south pole faced away from the sun, but they hoped Odie would reawaken once sunlight hit its solar panels again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntuitive Machines started listening for Odie\u2019s wake-up signal on March 20, when we projected enough sunlight would potentially charge the lander\u2019s power system and turn on its radio,\u201d representatives of the company wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odysseus, which was built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, powered down one week after landing as lunar night began for 14 days. Flight controllers ordered the spacecraft to snooze for three weeks, while the moon\u2019s south pole faced away from the sun, but they hoped Odie would reawaken once sunlight hit its solar panels again. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}