Live updates: Odysseus moon landing

An apparent issue with Odysseus' navigation systems will force the lander to rely on experimental technology.

"Intuitive Machines made the decision to reassign the primary navigation sensors from Odysseus....to use the sensors on NASA's Navigation Doppler Lidar," according to the webcast.

The NDL payload is an experimental technology that aimed to test out how future landers would make more precise landings on the moon. It’s designed to shoot laser beams to the ground to give exact measurements of speed and direction of flight, according to Farzin Amzajerdian, NASA's principal investigator for the instrument.

But it'll serve more than an experimental role as Odysseus heads to the moon.

"They did some checks, and they're performing very well," according to Gary Jordan, a NASA communications manager, on the livestream.