Meet the Canadian company bringing you photos from the moon

A Canadian-made camera is supplying the world with some of the newest images from the moon.

A Canadian-made camera is supplying the world with some of the newest images from the moon.

Toronto-based Canadensys manufactured a total of seven cameras that made the long and difficult lunar trip aboard the Odysseus lunar lander.

Those cameras are responsible for several images released this week by Intuitive Machines, the company that made Odysseus and is responsible for its operation in space.

"Most of the images you’ve seen — if not all of them — from Intuitive Machines that sort of look like a round globe have come from our cameras," said Frank Teti, the general manager of Canadensys Aerospace.

The Odysseus lunar lander touched down on the moon on Feb. 22, and Canadensys has been receiving some images back from the spacecraft when it can make use of the limited connection between the ship and mission control in Houston.

Complications in landing meant the Odysseus spacecraft settled at a roughly 30-degree angle, according to latest estimates from Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus.

That made communications with the spacecraft even harder.