2024-02-23 05:06:14
This content was published on February 23, 2024 – 07:01
(Keystone-ATS) The American probe Nova-C from the Texan company Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon on Thursday. It “transmits a signal,” said the company, which is the first private company to successfully land a moon landing.
“We can confirm without a doubt that our equipment is on the surface of the Moon and we are transmitting” a signal, an Intuitive Machines official said during the company’s live broadcast.
This success marks not only a major milestone for the private space sector, but also the first landing of an American probe on the Moon since the end of the legendary Apollo program in 1972.
India and Japan recently managed to land there thanks to their national space agencies, becoming the fourth and fifth countries to do so, following the Soviet Union, the United States and China. But several companies – Israeli, Japanese and American – have so far failed to achieve the same feat. Russia also missed a moon landing this summer.
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