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By Intuitive Machines February 15, 2024Intuitive Machines has successfully launched its IM-1 Nova-C class lunar lander on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, marking a significant step in space exploration. The mission, part of NASA’s CLPS initiative, aims to return the U.S. to the Moon and lay the foundation for future human missions. Credit: SpaceXIntuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission, launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9, successfully commenced operations in space, aiming to mark the U.S.’s return to the lunar surface after 52 years as part…

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus has started making its way to the moon and could make history as the first privately built lander to touch down on the lunar surface. The lander was ferried to space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a booster that already had 17 flights under its belt before this one and could even fly again in the future, seeing as it had safely returned to Earth on the company's Landing Zone 1. Both SpaceX and Intuitive Machines have confirmed that Odysseus has successfully been deployed and has started its…

Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines is gearing up for an actual moonshot at the end of this month, when it’ll try to land a spacecraft named Odysseus on the lunar surface — ideally without it breaking in the process. The mission follows Astrobotic’s unsuccessful attempt in January; that company’s lander, Peregrine, never made it to the moon due to a propellant leak that cut its journey short. Peregrine’s failure means Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission could be the first ever commercial moon landing if it makes…

The first private lunar landing mission will take place as Intuitive Machines and SpaceX have decided on a launch date which is said to be February 14, which is Valentine's Day. The Odysseus moon lander will take the direct route to the lunar south pole, unlike ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission. The mission is named as IM-1 moon mission which has the major objective of landing on the lunar surface successfully. If the mission is successful, it will become the first private mission to land on the Moon. Know more about the…

Intuitive Machines is ready to go to the moon. The company announced Monday that its first lunar lander has completed all final integration milestones and is now encapsulated in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairing, where it will stay until launch on February 14. The mission launch window opens at 12:57 a.m. EST; should weather or other issues delay the mission, SpaceX will have three days to execute the launch. The tight timeline comes down to the details of the mission: The lander is taking a direct trajectory to the…

Samsung's AI-powered Generative Edit tool is one of the latest additions to the Gallery app, available exclusively for the Galaxy S24 series. I tried Generative Edit on my Galaxy S24+, and it shows a lot of promise but could use a few more features. Here's what I make of it. To keep things simple, I like to think of Generative Edit as a tool composed of two elements. We'll call them “rotate-and-fill” and “object cropping.” Rotate-and-fill Generative Edit works best You can use Generative Edit to rotate photos and fill…

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on UnsplashIntroductionIn the previous article, we discussed the surprising behavior of data in higher dimensions. We found that volume tends to accumulate in the corners of spaces in a strange way, and we simulated a hypersphere inscribed inside a hypercube to investigate this, observing an interesting decrease in their volume ratio as the dimensions grew. Examples that demonstrated the advantages of multi-dimensional thinking were the DVD-paper experiment and the kernel trick in support vector…

Intuitive Machines is pushing back the mission of its first lunar lander to mid-February in coordination with launch provider SpaceX, the company said earlier this week. The Houston, Texas-based company said that the new launch window “comes after unfavorable weather conditions resulted in shifts in the SpaceX launch manifest.” The new launch target date, which is a full month after the original January 12-16 window, is due to the mission profile: Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C spacecraft is aiming to land near the lunar…

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space exploration.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonOn Tuesday, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic announced that its Peregrine lunar lander is fueled and ready to rock. The Moon mission, formally known as Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission 1 (TO2-AB), is…

Understand the logic behind the fundamental algorithm used inside the gradient descentIntroductionIn time series analysis, there is often a need to understand the trend direction of a sequence by taking into account previous values. Approximation of the next values in a sequence can be performed in several ways, including the usage of simple baselines or the construction of advanced machine learning models.An exponential (weighted) moving average is a robust trade-off between these two methods. Having a simple recursive…