Intuitive Machines - IM-1 - Moon Mission Lander
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Not seen anything mention but on the 15th Feb SpaceX launched a moon lander from Intuitive Machines.
It completed its orbit insertion burn this morning, so currently in a 92km orbit with an expected landing tomorrow (22nd
Feb) around 9pm.
Some info about the mission and 12 payloads (6 from NASA) its carrying
It completed its orbit insertion burn this morning, so currently in a 92km orbit with an expected landing tomorrow (22nd
Feb) around 9pm.
Some info about the mission and 12 payloads (6 from NASA) its carrying
Fingers crossed.
You wait 50 years (not literally) and all of a sudden everyone is sending moon landers again.
NASA TV will have the landing livestream later today from 14:00 cst (8pm UK time).
Estimated landing time will be at 15:24 CST (9:24 pm UK time)
Or same footage streamed here:
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1
You wait 50 years (not literally) and all of a sudden everyone is sending moon landers again.
NASA TV will have the landing livestream later today from 14:00 cst (8pm UK time).
Estimated landing time will be at 15:24 CST (9:24 pm UK time)
Or same footage streamed here:
https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1
Intuitive Machines: US company makes historic Moon landing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-683...
Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
Pupp said:
Intuitive Machines: US company makes historic Moon landing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-683...
Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
Indeed.Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
BBC said:
Controllers had to deal with an almost mission-stopping technical problem even before the descent began.
Odysseus' ranging lasers, which were supposed to calculate the craft's altitude and velocity, weren't working properly.
Fortunately, there were some experimental lasers from Nasa on board, and engineers were able to patch these across to the navigation computers.
So the NASA lasers weren't just cargo. I assumed they were sending experiments that would be carried out on landing. This suggests NASA had were using this to test the systems that will be used for landings in the future.Odysseus' ranging lasers, which were supposed to calculate the craft's altitude and velocity, weren't working properly.
Fortunately, there were some experimental lasers from Nasa on board, and engineers were able to patch these across to the navigation computers.
SpudLink said:
Pupp said:
Intuitive Machines: US company makes historic Moon landing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-683...
Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
Indeed.Seems like they’ve made it work… overcoming some significant issues on the way.
Hope the dusty old rock gives up some secrets to reward the effort!
BBC said:
Controllers had to deal with an almost mission-stopping technical problem even before the descent began.
Odysseus' ranging lasers, which were supposed to calculate the craft's altitude and velocity, weren't working properly.
Fortunately, there were some experimental lasers from Nasa on board, and engineers were able to patch these across to the navigation computers.
So the NASA lasers weren't just cargo. I assumed they were sending experiments that would be carried out on landing. This suggests NASA had were using this to test the systems that will be used for landings in the future.Odysseus' ranging lasers, which were supposed to calculate the craft's altitude and velocity, weren't working properly.
Fortunately, there were some experimental lasers from Nasa on board, and engineers were able to patch these across to the navigation computers.
Eric Mc said:
Terminator X said:
Not quite like 1969 then ... still that's 55 years of progress for you.
TX.
It's a lot harder without a human on board looking out the window with their hands on a throttle and joystick. TX.
After all the hype about the heli-cam (or whatever it was) that was meant to be launched at 30m alt. to video it landing. Even a few cameras strapped to the sides of the module could have sent something but as it was it was a damp squib.
The more this silence goes on the more I’m becoming convinced that this has failed and we are just getting a load of guff about “faint signals”; even back in the days of Ranger missions sixty years ago you’d get an image going in. We get images from Mars landers sent basically on touchdown. Here: nothing. I’d expect pretty well realtime imagery.
Shame as it was a professional looking setup. I think we will all be let down gently over the next couple of days, it’s perhaps been very badly damaged on landing , but it’ll be hailed as a big triumph, first soft landing since A17 etc. I’m sure that IMs soaring stock price will be a big driver for this.
Shame as it was a professional looking setup. I think we will all be let down gently over the next couple of days, it’s perhaps been very badly damaged on landing , but it’ll be hailed as a big triumph, first soft landing since A17 etc. I’m sure that IMs soaring stock price will be a big driver for this.
RichB said:
Eric Mc said:
Terminator X said:
Not quite like 1969 then ... still that's 55 years of progress for you.
TX.
It's a lot harder without a human on board looking out the window with their hands on a throttle and joystick. TX.
After all the hype about the heli-cam (or whatever it was) that was meant to be launched at 30m alt. to video it landing. Even a few cameras strapped to the sides of the module could have sent something but as it was it was a damp squib.
Live TV from the moon only began when the astronauts activated the external TV camera to capture themselves coming down the ladder. Once they were on the surface, they detached the camera and, on Apollos 11,12 and 14, put it on a tripod or, in the case of Apollos 15,16 and 17, put it on the Lunar Rover.
Eric Mc said:
You do realise that there were no live images transmitted by the Apollo Lunar Module during the descent and landing phase?
This is 2023. Every single unmanned Mars or lunar lander I can remember (actually add Venus to that) has got an image back pronto. It’s good PR.
We were told by the IM team we’d get images after a couple of minutes. They had the fancy landing cam setup.
durbster said:
I gave up and went to sleep when they lost contact as it was looking like it'd crashed on landing, so I was quite pleased to wake up and see it's upright and communicating. 
Are there any images of it landing / landed? When I watched last night they had lost contact and just celebrated when someone said it had landed!TX.
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