The private Odysseus lander is in orbit around the Moon. This is a crucial moment for the mission in view of the real challenge of So far, the objective has been missed by previous private missions, namely by Peregrine of the American Astrobotic last January and, before that, by Hakuto-R M1 of the Japanese ispace in 2023 and Beresheet of the Israeli company SpaceIL in 2019.

At the moment, however, there are no particular critical issues on the horizon.