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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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[โ€“] threelonmusketeers 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

According to the NASA press conference, they rewrote the GNC software and uploaded it in about an hour and a half. Mad respect to the software team. Whoever was in change of flipping the laser safety switch before launch, however...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You'd think that they'd have some kind of readiness indicator light up green when that system was enabled. But maybe not.