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Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here.

I'm John Batchler.

Intuitive Machines.

Bob, I recall intuitive machines has well-to-do contracts from NASA.

What is it?

It is a company that's trying to build a lunar landers for NASA and for others.

It attempted to land on the moon last year. One of the two

companies that tried to do it last year. The other one was astrobotic. They both tried.

They both had problems. In Tudemchis actually did get into little orbit and successfully landed,

though there were issues at the landing landing which had the spacecraft tilt over.

They were able to get communications from it, but they never could quite do the science

intended on the surface.

That's okay because it wasn't engineering test flight.

They're going to try again.

But this week, they released some data from their mission that was kind of revealing. It appears that when

the intuitive machines lander went into a lunar orbit, it did not go into the orbit they

originally wanted. It went into an orbit with its low point, only 1.3 kilometers above the surface that's less than a

mile and it actually that low point was over a mountainous regions where some mountains were higher

than that and so it could have hit the ground it could have impacted the surface they quickly

detected this and did an engine burn to raise that low point. And so they weren't, the missions

have survived it, but it is a factor maybe why the mission didn't do, didn't do what it wanted

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