SCI Latest lunar landing attempt will take place today (Feb. 22) and will be streamed live

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tanstaafl

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The IM-1 (aka, Nova-C) lunar lander will attempt a landing at the Moon's south pole on Feb. 22nd (Thursday) at 17:49 East Coast time. Theoretically the mission web site below will have a live streaming link at some point, but I'll be at work and unable to verify a live streaming link is actually located there. The bottom site has embedded links to some sites as well.

www.intuitivemachines.com

IM-1 | Intuitive Machines

IM-1 Mission Information & Payloads
www.intuitivemachines.com www.intuitivemachines.com

"Intuitive Machines will host a live stream of the landing on its website, and NASA will also air its own live coverage through the space agency’s website and NASA TV. You can also tune in through the stream below. The live coverage will begin at 4:15 p.m. ET, and NASA will host a news conference afterwards."

gizmodo.com

How to Watch Today's Attempted Moon Landing Live

The Odysseus lunar lander is set for a Thursday touchdown, as Intuitive Machines aims to become the first private company to pull off a soft landing.
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tnphil

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Looks like they did an additional orbit, delaying the landing.
Website now says streaming begins at 4pm CST with landing at 5:24pm CST.
 
Bps1691

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Well it’s down. 50 years have passed since the last time we’ve successfully did it with manned missions.

We should have had permanent installations since the 1980’s to have been used to support efforts towards mining asteroids, manufacturing in true zero g’s with the returned raw materials and advanced materials discovery/ creation.

Instead the politicians decided to waste billions or trillions on failed programs to create compliant populations of voters, to line their own pockets and in stupid war efforts.

Glad we’ve made at least a small first step towards man’s growth towards a real future but fear that the corrupt politicians and their true master will screw us over again.
 
BornFree

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They are getting some kind of weak signal from it, but they have lost their main communications after landing. At this point the craft is useless unless they can re-establish communication and confirm the thing is not laying on its side.

Edit to add:

Despite this Nasa declared that the space craft had found a new home and then cut their feed.
I found one MSM report from just a few minutes ago that failed to mention this problem. Only stating that it had landed successfully.

We trully live in propaganda land now.
 
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BornFree

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Just found a yahoo article that claims that they re- established communication. It was not specific on exactly which kind of communication.
 
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tanstaafl

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IM-1 isn't really a scientific mission/lander in the sense most people are probably thinking. It's designed to shuttle supplies to astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis program, not to be specifically a scientific probe. There are three landers in the IM testing series, so two more to go. IM-2 is supposed to launch in mid-2024 and IM-3 in late-2024 (I think).
 
Great Northwet

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I was listening to it and it said some of the comms are down. Now we know why all the Wi-Fi/phones went down at the same time last night.
 
Bubble Head

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Listened to the above video and this sounds like lunar Uber. It was developed privately from what I gather and NASA furnishes the launchpad. This less government gets in the way the faster this will go.
 
BornFree

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Just found out from someone in the know much more than I, that they are receiving a very low bandwidth signal from one of the antennas. This gives them some form of communication with the craft, but it does not allow them to conduct the missions in any way shape or form. Mission control for the craft is totally not done by NASA. It is all being done by the company that made the craft. That company is not saying much about what is going on. The high bandwidth signal requires that the other antenna be aligned properly. There is not much they can do about it if that antenna is to far out of alignment. The mission would be over.
 
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tanstaafl

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The mission was launched (I think) by Space-X from Texas, not by NASA from Florida. In any case, the mission is only supposed to last 14 days and there is (I think) no critical science being done (unless you're the university or what-not that supplied a particular package). I imagine it was more like, "We're launching an empty pallet to the Moon, does anyone want to put something on it?" This mission is supposed to have a Portland, Oregon connection in that some insulating material made by Columbia Sportswear was used on the spacecraft.
 
Masterphreak

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tanstaafl said:
The mission was launched (I think) by Space-X from Texas, not by NASA from Florida. In any case, the mission is only supposed to last 14 days and there is (I think) no critical science being done (unless you're the university or what-not that supplied a particular package). I imagine it was more like, "We're launching an empty pallet to the Moon, does anyone want to put something on it?" This mission is supposed to have a Portland, Oregon connection in that some insulating material made by Columbia Sportswear was used on the spacecraft.
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This mission did launch from Florida. SpaceX only has the experimental test pad for Starship in Texas at this time.
 
Uhhmmm...

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The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, company that built it says​


CNN - The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday.

The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform X just after the historic mission made its touchdown on the lunar surface Thursday. But the company’s CEO, Steve Altemus, said data later showed that the spacecraft was likely tilted on its side after having caught one of its feet on a lunar rock....

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tanstaafl

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It does look a little top heavy, especially once you burn off all the fuel (probably located near the bottom) during the descent. Low lunar gravity doesn't mean you can disregard gravity entirely.
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Masterphreak

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tanstaafl said:
It does look a little top heavy, especially once you burn off all the fuel (probably located near the bottom) during the descent. Low lunar gravity doesn't mean you can disregard gravity entirely.
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It was more of an issue with too much lateral velocity during touchdown. One of the legs clipped a rock and was damaged so it tipped over.
 
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