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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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[–] SergeantScar 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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,..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months 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!