IM-1 Lunar Lander Mission

[round flicker]

hm

[neon moss]

yeah its got a signal, still alive

apparently

[limpid flame]

15 mins according to NASA

[rich nexus]

POGGERS

[dusk tide]

i think its down

just

[limpid flame]

they will change antennas

[dusk tide]

the antenna might be damaged

[limpid flame]

uh thats fifty fifty...

[covert osprey]

NOT DEAD YET

[river olive]

He really said

[proud dawn]

NOT DEAD YET

[river olive]

NOT DEAD YET

[quartz rivet]

NOT DEAD YET

[limpid flame]

Yea, maybe

[proud dawn]

NOT DEAD YET

[limpid flame]

NOT DEAD YET YEEE

[static garnet]

life

[neon moss]

they're picking up a faint signal from the lander

[dusk tide]

signal from high gain antenna

[hollow bough]

https://twitter.com/amsatdl/status/1760808969205944413
https://twitter.com/amsatdl/status/1760809901092131210

AMSAT-DL (@amsatdl) on X

#IM1 @Int_Machines very weak but still visible in Bochum!!!!

Twitter · Feb 22, 2024, 11:29 PM

AMSAT-DL (@amsatdl) on X

now the weak signal seems to have disappears now

Twitter · Feb 22, 2024, 11:32 PM

[limpid flame]

Not dead yet

[sinful glen]

NOT DEAD YET YEEEEEEHAWWWWWW!

[dusk tide]

faint signal

[rich nexus]

YEAAAAAAAA

[river olive]

Faint signal

[carmine mantle]

THERE IS SOMETHING

[static garnet]

SIGNAL??

[dusk tide]

shes down

[sinful glen]

CINEMATIC
AS

FUCK

[dusk tide]

but in what shape

[proud dawn]

there is a fucking

[carmine matrix]

doesn’t mean it’s gone

[river olive]

SHES GOTTA BE DOWN

[carmine matrix]

concur

[proud dawn]

Ok I’m going to take a nap (I won’t)

Tell me if anything happens

[dusk tide]

nah u gotta stay

[limpid flame]

100% damaged but is it just a scratch or another one rides the bus...

[dusk tide]

im thinking the antenna is messed up

[carmine matrix]

not necessarily

[rich nexus]

someone get amaury to keep him awake

[dusk tide]

could be a harder than planned landing (not crash but just slightly too fast)

[proud dawn]

He’s been sleeping for the past 3 hours

[sinful glen]

maybe a hard landing, or a bounce?

[carmine matrix]

comms challenges were not unanticipated so doesn’t shock me

[proud dawn]

There’s no way he wakes up

[hollow bough]

I just hope we aren't looking at another SLIM
That would be more or less LOM given Nova-C's design

[neon moss]

touchdown confirmed

[proud dawn]

[limpid flame]

Bro, wake up

[carmine matrix]

TOUCHDOWN

[proud dawn]

WHAT

[river olive]

She’s down

[carmine matrix]

YEEEEEEEEEEHAW

[proud dawn]

WHAT HAPPENED

[sinful glen]

TOUCHDOWN!

[rich nexus]

YEAAAA

[dusk tide]

LANDING CONFIRMED! INGENUITY MECHANISMS 1 IS ON THE GROUND!

[gusty musk]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

[proud dawn]

MY STREAM IS STILL LATE

[steep sail]

TANGO DELTA MOSTLY-NOMINAL

[carmine matrix]

i doubt it’s a slim tbh

[sinful glen]

IM-1 is MOSTLY OKAY!

[dusk tide]

it is down, but how usefull will the lander be

[carmine matrix]

YEEEEEEEHAW

[limpid flame]

not in one peace but YEEE US RAHHH

[quartz rivet]

WE ARE BACK

[carmine matrix]

I FEEL TEARS

[limpid flame]

YEEEE

[river olive]

WELCOME TO THE MOON

[carmine matrix]

WELCOME TO THE MOON

[dusk tide]

on the surface and transmitting

[covert osprey]

WOOOOOOOO

[hollow bough]

Or tipped over

[limpid flame]

W

[river olive]

ODYSSEUS HAS FOUND ITS NEW HOME

[carmine matrix]

ODYSSEUS HAS FOUND ITS NEE HOME

[proud dawn]

IT FUCKING SOFTLY LANDED ON THE MOON ?????????

[neon moss]

did it pull a slim now is the question

[edgy flicker]

HOLY SHIT

[south palm]

WOOO

[proud dawn]

I’M NOT EATING SAND

[fading forge]

💀

[carmine matrix]

with those 6 legs???

/hj

[proud dawn]

GUYS, PEOPLE. I’M NOT EATING SAND TODAY

[dusk tide]

"lets leave the lights on for the bots on IM-1, how bout that, we're on the moon to stay"

[quartz rivet]

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

[proud dawn]

If we ever get eagle cam views it could be the most insane shit we’ve ever seen in Spaceflight

[quartz rivet]

WE ARE SO GOING

[rich nexus]

YEAAAAAAAA

[quartz rivet]

it'll be insane

[sinful glen]

HELL YEAH!

[static garnet]

would be kinda hilarious

[limpid flame]

YOU DON'T FORM AT THE WET SAND, YOU DONT FORM AT ALL, WOOOW, YOU DONT FORM AT THE WET SAND, I DOOO

[sinful glen]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[quartz rivet]

but those have to be relayed through the lander so

[dusk tide]

🙏 literally ksp cam

[quartz rivet]

literally using wifi lmao

[carmine matrix]

this is what i’m most excited for

[dusk tide]

first US Lunar landing since 1972 and Apollo 17

[carmine mantle]

so it actually succesfully landed but likely either tipped or just in a shade so the signal is hard

[rich nexus]

*american lunar landing

[limpid flame]

What a successful failure!

[proud dawn]

Uh

[sinful glen]

*american

[proud dawn]

No

[edgy flicker]

???

[dusk tide]

i know

[limpid flame]

Its orange uh

[pliant sundial]

The good ending.

[dusk tide]

i know

[carmine matrix]

definitely not a failure yet lmao

[dusk tide]

its first american since 1972

[neon moss]

if it tipped over cant wait to see the eagle cam footage

[sinful glen]

true

[limpid flame]

ye but rip antennas

[proud dawn]

Reminds me of that comms blackout when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969 and it turned out it just tipped over

[carmine matrix]

hopefully we’d get it

[river olive]

Bill Nelson gonna talk

[dusk tide]

BILL

[high sparrow]

God bless the United States of America.

[quartz rivet]

BILL

[carmine matrix]

not necessarily

[rich nexus]

SPACE BIDEN HAS ENTERED THE BUILDING

[sinful glen]

oh hey bill
please dont kill me

[carmine matrix]

i wonder what the billy n failure speech was that we’ll never see

[river olive]

BILL BILL BILL

[south palm]

🇺🇸 WOO YEAH LETS GO

[proud dawn]

(I still love FAM)

BILL NELSON

WHY ARE YOU SO OLD

[dusk tide]

cuz he is

[river olive]

He’s old but yet still cool

[dusk tide]

doesnt stop him from being epic

"The US has returned to the moon" cold

absolute cold quote

[river olive]

He seems like someone I could just talk to about space for hours

[rich nexus]

i think we should send nelson back to the iss and do all his admin duties from leo

[limpid flame]

yo joe speaking

[river olive]

He is?

[limpid flame]

ice cream lander

[dusk tide]

dev ayesa moment

[rich nexus]

no longer makes sense that nasa is not led from space

ODYSSEUS HAS TAKEN THE MOON

[carmine matrix]

i wish jim bridenstine stayed a cool guy instead of saying he’d take a shower with ron desantis (maybe this occurred in a dream)

[rich nexus]

THE MOON IS A US TERRITORY

[simple fox]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE ARE SO JOEING BACK

[limpid flame]

NASA W USA W

[sinful glen]

I for one think the Moon should be the 51st state

[quartz rivet]

WE ARE JOE BACK

[proud dawn]

Moon Treaty of 19something

[carmine matrix]

oh no it was an actual thing he said

[dusk tide]

landing @ 5:23pm CST (23:23 UTC)

[carmine matrix]

https://twitter.com/AndrewB_News/status/1668035109776158721?lang=en

Andrew (@AndrewB_News) on X

Here is the clip of Jim Bridenstine saying he and Ron DeSantis would "together shower in the basement"

Twitter · Jun 11, 2023, 11:18 PM

[quartz rivet]

Bill Nelson is so fucking old lol

[proud dawn]

Good fucking lord maddie what the fuck

[river olive]

Coverage over

[quartz rivet]

Coverage over?

[carmine matrix]

no why are they ending the livestream

[proud dawn]

????????????????????????????

[quartz rivet]

I hate that they don't wait

[limpid flame]

he is joe brother

[round flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/merica-patriotic-yea-usa-gif-13927329

[quartz rivet]

for more data

[round flicker]

USAUSAUSAUSAUSA

[rich nexus]

geopolitics in space along real national lines needs more attention in scifi

[edgy flicker]

the amount of people about to visit “nasa.gov/clips”

[round flicker]

USA can into moon

[rich nexus]

*onto

[dusk tide]

got eyes on the lander

[sinful glen]

and now we wait for the Twitter updates

[rich nexus]

return signal acquired

[round flicker]

NSF: intuitive machines cam

[proud dawn]

It’s time for the endless Twitter scrolling

[limpid flame]

what a pointy landing zone! slim was suck compared to this

[edgy flicker]

wait im walking over to it

it’s alive

[dusk tide]

bruh its so cloudy over where i am

shame cuz i wouldve snapped a pic of the lander

[proud dawn]

You literally live in the UK

[static garnet]

it’s daytime here

[proud dawn]

I’m e-biking there

[dusk tide]

it was nice earlier

blue clear skies

[edgy flicker]

don’t hit a pothole

[proud dawn]

Wait a fucking minute

That just gave me an incredible idea

What if e-bike on the Moon

[static garnet]

in the uk???

[rich nexus]

watch this guys this is gonna be the next spaceflight

[proud dawn]

Instead of huge rover

[dusk tide]

ikr

[neon moss]

you cant never predict the weather in the uk, changes within minutes

[dusk tide]

tell me about it

[proud dawn]

This is the moment where I say « We’re NextSpaceflighting »

And then I NextSpaceFlight all over the place

[dusk tide]

damn

[neon moss]

was sunny when i left the house today and 5 minutes later it was raining incredibly heavily

[dusk tide]

yeah lol

[hollow bough]

Well I hope they really manage to get telemetry lock soon, because that doesn't give me confidence that they had a nominal touchdown
In SLIM's case they have data all day long but the ground control was confused

[cerulean canopy]

PROPULSIVE LANDING ON THE LUNAR REGOLITH SUCCESS

[rich nexus]

WHAT

wait did something more happen

[proud dawn]

WE

[proud dawn]

ARE

SO

Oh

[calm mesa]

EAT SHIT CSS

[rich nexus]

LMFAO

[proud dawn]

HE DOES BE STUPID

And racist

And transphobic

[rich nexus]

oh boy

[river olive]

CSS sucks

[dusk tide]

wen IM-2

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/laure_mar/status/1760812645555528179?s=46&t=SMbYM7wvp4yImXva6dTuCg

Lauren Potterat (@laure_mar) on X

new on console phrase just dropped

Twitter · Feb 22, 2024, 11:43 PM

[high sparrow]

This Year

[dusk tide]

what did the Chinese Space Station do to you

[proud dawn]

Tomorrow

[high sparrow]

And IM-3

[static garnet]

me when my brain is just essentially nothing more than a piece of meat

[river olive]

Not that 😭

The Chinese space station is better than iss

[dusk tide]

wild take

[broken sequoia]

so bets on whether or not it’s tipped over

[dusk tide]

the moon is beautiful

[static garnet]

balancing on one of its legs 107%

[dusk tide]

doubt

[broken sequoia]

imo all it really has going for it is tycho crater the rest is just an asphalt grey visual sludge

[dusk tide]

yeah i know and its weird cuz its just a dull grey rock but it still manages to be fantastic to look at

[rich nexus]

i think "awesome" in the original sense is more accurate

[edgy flicker]

yes

[dusk tide]

the Mares, impact craters, the little (from our POV) mountain ranges and ridges

just looks cool

ive got a bone to pick with Intuitive Machines cuz they couldnt have landed yesterday could they

smh

[proud dawn]

The Moon looks insanely cool only when there are actual people or spacecrafts on it

[dusk tide]

ohh yeah ofc this is the first Lunar landing by a private company

[rich nexus]

.....youd like to WHAT

[dusk tide]

yeah

[quartz rivet]

???

[dusk tide]

its an expression

[quartz rivet]

No it's not lol

[proud dawn]

I’d prefer to bottom myself

[broken sequoia]

I’ve heard off yourself but not top

[dusk tide]

ive heard it a fair few times, maybe its just a uk thing

[broken sequoia]

that’ll do it

[proud dawn]

DKIS is Canadian

So I guess so yeah

[dusk tide]

yea

[broken sequoia]

can’t have a smoke without the the automod getting all fussy

[dusk tide]

yeah fr

[proud dawn]

I literally can’t say « I’m late » in French

[dusk tide]

ohh yea lmao

one of the few things i remember from french

[edgy flicker]

ban

[proud dawn]

No

You

[round flicker]

Down 10% and then up 30% after hours is WILD

They do be machining intuitively

[dusk tide]

fair few people watched this as well

at one point there was 250k on the NASA stream on yt

[round flicker]

ye

[dusk tide]

lmao

[drowsy garden]

CAN CONFIRM

[dusk tide]

is this also the first lunar lander to use cryogenic fuel?

[steep sail]

Yeah

[dusk tide]

https://tenor.com/view/crowd-reacts-england-croatia-audience-jumping-gif-17856925

[static garnet]

holy shit it’s at 38%

[proud dawn]

Damn that was a rough landing

[dusk tide]

any landing you can walk away from is a good landing

she mightve quipped a feather or two

[proud dawn]

THEY DELETED

[dusk tide]

[polar fog]

Did it work
My connection went to shit like 2 minutes after the expected landing time

[dusk tide]

its on the ground

just the communications are a bit iffy

quite a weak signal being transmitted

[proud dawn]

It looks like it’s still alive

[dusk tide]

the team is trying to figure the problme

[proud dawn]

But uuhhh

[hollow bough]

It landed, in one piece enough that the signal is seen, but no data downlink yet and there's clearly some kind of off-normal situation
Could be anything from transmitters, power to another SLIM (tipped over???)

[static garnet]

slim curse

[dusk tide]

might play some KSP tomorrow and recreate IM-1

its quite late to do it now

gotta get up earlyish tomorrow

well today technically

[calm mesa]

shackleton 51st state when

[static garnet]

wtf you cant search chat in threads on mobile discord now??

what is this bullshit

[fading forge]

could u ever?

[chilly sleet]

Yeah you could

[hardy perch]

Would regular channel search not find those results?

[static garnet]

havent tried that yet

the deliberate lack of a search button threw me off pretty hard

[hardy perch]

Doesn't look like it, at least on Android (beta) client

[static garnet]

it’s time the thread turns into #off-topic 2

while we wait for more data

[rich nexus]

my partner is so fucking based for this

[calm mesa]

real

[high sparrow]

https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1760838333851148442

Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) on X

After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data.
Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 1:25 AM

[rich nexus]

UPRIGHT POG

[hardy perch]

it's so over because we're so fucking there

[deep oriole]

https://x.com/zebulgar/status/1760811316959223814?s=46&t=LJKHrV0aE-lqVMS68FjSGg

delian (@zebulgar) on X

AMERICA JUST LANDED ON THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 52 YEARS

TRULY THE GREATEST NATION ON THE PLANET

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Twitter · Feb 22, 2024, 11:38 PM

So true

[rich nexus]

heres to many more rounds of

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1136735356440547489/1210068350408073236/NOVA-C_TYPO.gif

[edgy flicker]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1115371257727291472/1210395707421233243/image0.jpg?ex=65ea67d8&is=65d7f2d8&hm=df2f0574e4e13a54704a88105d8d8c7e17041039303e693348def8720e88b17c&

[polar fog]

[edgy flicker]

https://fxtwitter.com/embryriddle/status/1760814955857625127?s=46

[carmine matrix]

stinker

[carmine matrix]

YEEHAW

[calm mesa]

INITIATIVE MARCHES DID THE THING ! !

[simple fox]

LESGOOOOOOOO

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

[tame viper]

https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill/status/1760848236942615007?s=20

Dr. Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) on X

8/…steps to look for the signal to establish comms. Also they don’t know exactly the slope they landed on, and high gain antennas have to be pointed precisely to the receiving antenna. So they probably designed a procedure to look for the signal carefully and exhaustively.

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 2:05 AM

[carmine matrix]

https://x.com/CrainTim/status/1760853313010950166?s=20

Tim (@CrainTim) on X

@DrPhiltill We had a big roll maneuver at the end that was a challenge. Next time I want antennae that can be pointed!

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 2:25 AM

[broken sequoia]

they can’t point the antenna? no wonder they’re having trouble

[cerulean canopy]

It's fixed, yeah

[calm mesa]

odysseus got the fuckin

[carmine matrix]

so is this gonna lower ability to get data?

[hollow bough]

Whatever the scientific outcome of the lander is, I'll have to agree with Ed Kyle here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59696.msg2570410#msg2570410

I watched when Apollo 17 landed. It wasn't like this... No squinting at spectral displays for dim signals! Nobody made speeches before it was certain.
Wished the coverage was done the Japanese way...the JAXA team definitely did that right last month

[carmine matrix]

so eaglecam is dead by now

hopefully the wifi worked lmao

30 minutes of battery

after ejection

[simple fox]

💯

[quartz rivet]

Fr lol I thought the wifi thing was funny

[broken sequoia]

Not even, that thing is omnidirectional but these are HGAs

[round flicker]

why in the world do they not have a pointable antenna

like have a stationary antenna for basic stuff sure but then have a pointable one for everything else

[hardy perch]

Watch out, the arm chair lander builders have complaints lol. They soft landed, upright, on the first try, and they have comms. Can we all just take this collective win? Lol

[broken sequoia]

Just as a guess, might be ‘cause they didn’t wanna deal with pointing failure modes and mitigation

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/wapodavenport/status/1760846854244200723?s=46&t=SMbYM7wvp4yImXva6dTuCg

Christian Davenport (@wapodavenport) on X

This is the NASA payload onboard Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft that may very well have saved the day when the vehicle's navigation sensors stopped working.

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 1:59 AM

[river olive]

https://fxtwitter.com/coastal8049/status/1760865701995127191
https://fxtwitter.com/coastal8049/status/1760865705627410534
https://fxtwitter.com/coastal8049/status/1760865708903178706
https://fxtwitter.com/coastal8049/status/1760865716310339786

So where is it

[quartz rivet]

Huh?!

[hardy perch]

Yeah for every single thing you introduce you could introduce many times more points of failure

[hollow bough]

I probably will after seeing that the customer instruments get the chances to work
But I'm a bit on the stricter side of that (just like the JAXA SLIM program manager lol, he gave his mission a 60 points out of 100 post landing )

[static garnet]

what

[cerulean canopy]

That's a bold claim to make ngl

[broken sequoia]

big if true

[hardy perch]

Do you mean the commercial payloads or considering NASA in the customer bucket? Majority of the non NASA payloads are passive afaik.

And to be fair, SLIM landed upside down, 60/100 seems generous 😂

[hollow bough]

Yeah although that seems plausible, the IM team IIRC had Google Lunar X-Prize background but this is still their first try in flying real things, they might be still inexperienced in getting the right orbit tracking tolerance and flight programming techniques right. And they managed to beat that + LIDAR issues (though they definitely were lucky on that one) to land!

[round flicker]

Yea valid, I’m sure there’s a reason, I’m just having a really hard time figuring it out myself

[chilly sleet]

i mean IM's sole purpose is to mature Project M with private money

it wasnt a clean sheet design and idt the team is dumb enough to cleansheet everything because NASA suck

[dawn narwhal]

so uh

did it land or not

I wasn't really paying attention to the mission

[fading forge]

yes it did

[dawn narwhal]

great success

[dawn narwhal]

upright
they really felt the need to say this after a certain other lunar lander didn't they

[broken vapor]

When do the astronauts come out of the lander ?

[dusk tide]

today I think

[broken vapor]

[proud dawn]

They won’t

They’re staying inside for the hot choccy milk

[broken vapor]

I totally read choccy

Absolutely didn't misread it

[proud dawn]

… Stephen

What the fuck did you even read

[broken vapor]

I need a lawyer

[proud dawn]

You’re in a Dictatorship led by the Great Leader Amaury

And I’m his Prime Minister

You won’t be provided a lawyer

[round flicker]

uhm so I don’t think it should take almost 12 hours now to downlink an image

I could be wrong but what they doin

[proud dawn]

Sleeping

[broken vapor]

[round flicker]

eepy lander

[round flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-waiting-patiently-waiting-for-you-waiting-on-you-gif-15489516379864441176

they’re named intuitive machines and not intuitive antennas for a reason I guess

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1761030919178088831

Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) on X

Intuitive Machines stock $LUNR is surging in premarket trading after the company's historic moon landing.

Buckle up, the market's about to open. https://t.co/3tKnOIZyDS

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 2:11 PM

https://x.com/int_machines/status/1761032731729739804

Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) on X

Lunar Surface Day One Update (23FEB2024 0818 CST)
Odysseus is alive and well. Flight controllers are communicating and commanding the vehicle to download science data. The lander has good telemetry and solar charging.

We continue to learn more about the vehicle’s specific…

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 2:18 PM

[hollow bough]

https://x.com/spacetechlab/status/1761026675318350249

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

The EagleCam team is receiving telemetry and are working through next steps with @Int_Machines Mission Control, Stay tuned! #ERAUtotheMoon
#EagleCam

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 1:54 PM

[carmine matrix]

OH HELL YES

i thought the thing only had 30 minutes of battery

[fading forge]

https://tenor.com/view/flower-bunny-chewing-gif-14956699185132868957

[proud dawn]

We are so back

THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT

RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

https://tenor.com/view/rage-emoji-rage-gif-2922587064166244739

[round flicker]

ember riddlers can into moon

[quartz rivet]

For an entire college that's supposed to be just about space and planes I'd sure hope they can do shit like that lol

Still dope as hell tho

[carmine matrix]

https://x.com/tibininin/status/1760918912605004218?s=20

Tibininin (@tibininin) on X

Bill Nelson pre-recorded a im-1 success video, we can only assume there is a failure video. NASA Should realese all the fail/success vids

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 6:45 AM

‼️‼️

would be cool asl

[river olive]

It would be cool

[tame viper]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-over-it's-so-over-its-over-its-so-over-we're-back-gif-16588749771587271250

The cameraman watching his reaction across 2 videos

[river olive]

im-1 failure speech
artemis 3 failure speech

[carmine matrix]

have you seen the apollo 11 one

[broken sequoia]

can you imagine what SpaceX would do? yikes
like nasa will know to have a speech but the people who built and operated the lander are not set up to deal with failure they can’t just claim success on anyway

[hollow bough]

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-intuitive-machines-to-discuss-historic-moon-mission-today/
Press conference at 22:00 UTC today

[proud dawn]

It’s like

In forever

[high sparrow]

https://youtu.be/ZWEwR8fscFY

[broken sequoia]

https://vxtwitter.com/SpaceTechLab/status/1761097012659843556
eaglecam never deployed, well that sucks

[steep sail]

RIP

[sick moss]

The decision was made on purpose, so it didn't fail. And teams still plan to deploy EagleCam at a later moment

Why only tell us now? No idea

[rich nexus]

6.5 or 7 🥴

Oh what

???

[quartz rivet]

i love how we were never told this?!

[proud dawn]

f u c k

[broken sequoia]

yeah it’s great they even called out when it was supposed to deploy during the stream

[proud dawn]

However, both the Intuitive Machines and EagleCam teams still plan to deploy EagleCam and capture images of the lander on the lunar surface as the mission continues.

oh

[quartz rivet]

how tf they doing that

genuinely

[broken sequoia]

springs I think

[rich nexus]

Hop again trust

[broken sequoia]

anyway, it still sucks

[quartz rivet]

granted they jerry-rigged a new navigation system at the last second so I'm sure they'll figure something

[broken sequoia]

the reason I was excited for that was seeing a lander from the outside during powered descent, now it’s still something but it’s like what we saw of slim and the chang’e landers with their rovers, just sitting there

[carmine matrix]

cool but not as cool as seeing the landing 😭😭

[rich nexus]

I’m starting to feel there’s been a lot of really messy stuff going on behind the scenes that isn’t making it into the press releases

[broken sequoia]

I wanna know what that plume doin

[carmine matrix]

this kinda stuff happens

[quartz rivet]

i mean the sheer amount of tech failures we know about that they overcame are crazy

[rich nexus]

Yea

[sick moss]

Yeah also the fact that we haven't seen any images yet still seems weird to me

[rich nexus]

Mhm

[carmine matrix]

they’re waiting for the press conference i’m sure

[rich nexus]

The “specific information” line seems to sorta confirm that tilley was right about them not knowing where the thing landed for sure

[proud dawn]

that would kinda be funny as hell

[carmine matrix]

i want eaglecam to get another shot

it was too good to be true for IM-1 ig

[hollow bough]

I am now convinced that had NASA flew something else instead of a landing LIDAR to demonstrate on this, Odysseus would have become the 2nd HAKUTO-R (or ExoMars Schiaparelli) - spurious ranging readings killing the lander

[carmine matrix]

apparently the thing that failed was a mature thing

[drowsy garden]

IM's rangefinder?

[carmine matrix]

yeah

[quartz rivet]

wait really? i thought it was just trl8

shows how much i know lol

[drowsy garden]

Well, that's why you have redundancy in aerospace 😄

[carmine matrix]

i saw something that it was on osiris rex

[cerulean canopy]

The lander is "near or at our intended landing site"

[round flicker]

“spicy mission” lmao

[high sparrow]

https://youtu.be/ZWEwR8fscFY

LIVE

[cerulean canopy]

Photo!

[round flicker]

he do like saying uh

[cerulean canopy]

10km above the surface and 200km away from the landing site

[sick moss]

https://gyazo.com/8ac627227f5a83cfb484796cbc19bf38

[round flicker]

woaaa cool

fisheye lens —> flat moon theory

Bruh

ain’t no way

[sick moss]

https://gyazo.com/a8a7c3f9dab0aec342f092643b2763f4

[rich nexus]

IT FUCKING SLIMMED

[round flicker]

…

[rich nexus]

IT FUCKING SLIMMED

NOT AGAIN 😭

[round flicker]

that’s absolutely wild

[fading forge]

welp

[rich nexus]

so much for upright 😭

[round flicker]

BAHAHAHA

[edgy flicker]

that’s it im ending it all eaglecam didn’t deploy

[rich nexus]

wait it cant deploy in this attitude either

its just not safe

[edgy flicker]

[boreal jolt]

It's down 26% now

Oh looks to be recovering now

[calm mesa]

LMFAO

[fading forge]

https://i.redd.it/nloux42331wb1.gif

[calm mesa]

if i had a nickel for every lander that’s landed on the wrong side recently, i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[cerulean canopy]

The stock market is just a form of gambling

[proud dawn]

NO FUCKING WAY

I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT

THIS IS JUST SO FUNNY

[calm mesa]

funniest possible outcome

[cerulean canopy]

When he talked about a rock I thought the lander had one leg on a rock but then he flipped the little toy over and I'm like omg

[calm mesa]

bro think he

[round flicker]

Me too I thought it was just inclined slightly

Unfortunately 90° is not slight

No fucking wonder why they couldn’t align the antenna 😭

[high sparrow]

Moon is flat

[round flicker]

hey I said that

[edgy flicker]

how the fuck do you fall over while having 6 legs

[round flicker]

rock

[calm mesa]

a wave hit it

[round flicker]

leg gets caught on rock

[calm mesa]

the front fell off

[sick moss]

One leg got caught on a rock

[round flicker]

it ain’t got no gas in it

[edgy flicker]

real

[proud dawn]

ok so hear me out

https://tenor.com/view/starship-oft-itf-starship-orbital-spacex-gif-12750533320181721453

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/sciguyspace/status/1761152755849179136

Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) on X

The good news is that if you look to the left of the lander, it appears to have found large deposits of water in the plastically shadowed region of the moon.

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 10:15 PM

[edgy flicker]

little buddy is not for all mankind apollo 11

[proud dawn]

It literally is

[high sparrow]

Things to do in the future:

• Turn to SLIM
• Turn to Nova-C
• Pick up Ingenuity and the Martian rovers
• Feed the tardigrades that are on the moon

[proud dawn]

Bro was like

[round flicker]

Came down 3x faster than intended, and 2 mph sideways 😭

Good question here

[dapper merlin]

Still a success

[round flicker]

has to be elevated based on solar panel

…

The

they

Forgot to arm the laser

[proud dawn]

...

I just can't

[round flicker]

never flipped the switch

[drowsy garden]

is this for their's or NASAs?

[round flicker]

theirs

[drowsy garden]

LOL

[round flicker]

“Hopeful the solar array is not damaged”
The solar array, probably:

https://tenor.com/view/jattsedd-meow-mc-sealeo-gif-21554764

[covert osprey]

Bruhhhhhh

[covert osprey]

Don't forget about Luna 23

[drowsy garden]

This really shouldnt be funny but this is hilarious to me for some reason

[proud dawn]

25 you mean

[drowsy garden]

im actually really surprised this thing landed now

[covert osprey]

No I mean 23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_23

[drowsy garden]

have they commented anything about knowing its exact location?

[proud dawn]

I'm going to off myself over this

[sick moss]

Waiting for an upcoming LRO pass to verify the exact location

[round flicker]

Updated Intuitive Machines integration procedure:

• Arm laser system switch
• Check laser switch
• Arm switch again just in case
• Have someone else check it
• Check it again yourself
• Arm switch in your dream
• Arm it yet again tomorrow with 3 witnesses

[dusk tide]

i didnt listen to teh conference, did the thing actually tip over?

[round flicker]

Yes

[dusk tide]

great

[proud dawn]

ARM THE FUCKING LASER

[carmine matrix]

NO. WAY.😭😭

[proud dawn]

PLEASE JUST ARM IT

[carmine matrix]

and if they had we would’ve gotten eaglecam?? those bitches😭😭

[polar fog]

Good thing they sent another smaller lander to keep it from tipping over all the way

[rich nexus]

that little thing truly is an indispensable miniature

[drowsy garden]

No active payloads on the side on the ground they say, but a few antennas are pointed in the ground

[edgy flicker]

good night to everyone except the person who called in and said “twitter, sorry I mean x”

[polar fog]

Aight boys how much is this gonna delay IM-2

I'm gonna say about 20 minutes

[round flicker]

Honestly seems like an easy fix, just don’t fuck up the laser thing

and maybe pick a more solid landing site?

[covert osprey]

So why did the laser fail

[round flicker]

They

[covert osprey]

Did they literally just forget to turn it on

[round flicker]

never turned it on

Yes

[covert osprey]

How the fuck does that happen

I want to hear the exact words they used

[round flicker]

idk man

[dapper merlin]

CLPS bro

[covert osprey]

I refuse to believe this

[round flicker]

they didn’t arm the safety switch

I have zero clue how that was missed in a procedure

[covert osprey]

As in the physical safety switch on the craft?

[round flicker]

Yes

[drowsy garden]

yes

[covert osprey]

Bruh

[round flicker]

They’re boutta put the BIGGEST remove before flight tag on that thing

[covert osprey]

So did anything else besides that fail on its own

[round flicker]

Don’t think so

They came in too hot and also with lateral velocity tho

Both of which were not intended

[covert osprey]

Oof

[edgy flicker]

WHAT

[dusk tide]

can it still perform some experiments?

[drowsy garden]

yes

Eagle cam will be deployed

[sick moss]

Yes. Only 1 payload on the panel that's facing the Moon

[drowsy garden]

they just dont know if all can be done as intended

[dusk tide]

what about solar power? is it able to charge its batteries?

[drowsy garden]

it has good power now they said

[sick moss]

Yes

[dusk tide]

good

[sick moss]

They are hoping though that the solar panel that's on top of the lander didn't get damaged by the "incident"

[dusk tide]

so do they have a theory on how it tipped over?

[rich nexus]

yes

[sick moss]

They were coming in at 6 mph vertically, and 2 mph horizontally

[rich nexus]

if you have lateral velocity and friction with the ground you will see a torque no matter what

[dusk tide]

yeah yeah

[sick moss]

Yup, and they think that there's a possibility that they might have broken one of the legs

[river olive]

Wait, so did the lander actually tip over?

I wasn’t able to watch the press conference

[drowsy garden]

yes

[river olive]

No way 😭

[sinful glen]

In true KSP fashion

In hindsight, the lander does look like it’d have a CG that’s a bit too high for my liking

[static garnet]

how in tf

6 legs

and it still pulled a slim

[dusk tide]

best thing is, is that the lander is almost as wide as it is tall

its like about 4m wide and 4.3m tall or something

[carmine matrix]

@proud dawn time for sand

[static garnet]

slim is pretty much a ball how do you manage to replicate slim with much more traditional landing legs

[rich nexus]

the landers yearn for the regolith

they are hongry

[dusk tide]

didn't he say that he will eat sand if it doesn't succeed?

[round flicker]

and that one "experiment" is just the disk thing i think

[round flicker]

this thing

[round flicker]

that not real

[river olive]

Correct

[round flicker]

amazing

[calm mesa]

https://x.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1761171426835316814?s=20

Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) on X

NASA's Prasun Desai says their Navigation Doppler LIDAR system now is fully qualified (TRL 9) and they already have licensed it to a small company to commercially provide it to anyone who wants to buy it.

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 11:29 PM

lmao

[round flicker]

hahaha

[calm mesa]

that's one way to qualify it

[proud dawn]

Hey

It landed softly

Kinda

Not lithobreaking

[broken sequoia]

have they still not managed to get any pictures

[round flicker]

no their downlink speed is probably trash

[broken sequoia]

amazing

[round flicker]

considering the fact that their directional antenna is pointing at a rock, i'm surprised they're getting anything

[round flicker]

they did say hopefully by this weekend

[dawn narwhal]

wait did it deadass fall over

[sinful glen]

yup

horiztonal velocity made it commit SLIMpukku

[dawn narwhal]

that's fucking hilarious

[sinful glen]

eh it'll be fine

might have a broken leg

but otherwise fine

[dawn narwhal]

oh

[river olive]

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1761159611556508158

Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) on X

The laser rangefinder did not work, Altemus said, because a safety switch was not flipped before flight (the equivalent of forgetting a "remove before flight" tag.)

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 10:42 PM

[dawn narwhal]

are you kidding me

[static garnet]

[stiff plank]

not a good look. Truly a commercal

space moment

[river olive]

https://blogs.mtdv.me/blog/posts/amset-2024-02-24

You have to accept cookies but it’s worth it

[drowsy garden]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-moment-gif-19092556

[carmine matrix]

https://x.com/Siwelthelongboi/status/1761172921614041115?s=20

Lewis (@Siwelthelongboi) on X

POV you are a lunar lander in 2024:

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 11:35 PM

[sinful glen]

words cannot explain how much I would NOT wanna be that guy rn

[river olive]

https://tenor.com/view/shark-tank-mark-cuban-wouldnt-want-to-be-ya-gif-24479283

[round flicker]

there's no way they don't have like 5 people sign off on something like that

I'm actually baffled how it was missed

[sinful glen]

same reason why some shuttle missions had batteries missing from science instruments and computers

bad timing and oversight

..with some slight incompetence and a string of coincidences sprinkled in

[round flicker]

anyways their procedures are definitely being rewritten currently

[sinful glen]

ah yeah for sure

[round flicker]

and probably some sort of hardware lockout that will prevent them from launching without that switch flipped

I'd personally prefer a comically large remove before flight tag tho

[sinful glen]

IM should just put up a video of someone flipping the switch for IM-2 to keep the shareholders' blood pressure down

[hardy perch]

Did they say which payload is downward? I thought they hadn't confirmed orientation yet.

[hollow bough]

They apparently said the lander's "Panel E" faces downwards
God knows which is which
EDIT: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59696.msg2570844#msg2570844
This is the one facing downward - an art cube lol

So this side is down

[hardy perch]

Thanks. Cool that's a passive payload and doesn't really matter which way it's oriented haha

I just wanna know if Eagle Cam can still pop out and take a sideways selfie

[hollow bough]

Looking at Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission page's 3D model, it seems the ejector should be pointing 45 deg. up, so yeah it seems possible

[dawn narwhal]

that's really unfortunate actually

[carmine matrix]

https://news.erau.edu/headlines/eaglecam-updates-embry-riddle-device-lands-on-moon

[river olive]

The EagleCam team has discussed the importance of agility and adaptability since the beginning of this project. As a result, it has been able to quickly pivot over the past 36 hours.
Following news from Intuitive Machines (IM) that the Nova-C class Lunar Lander may currently be on its side, the EagleCam team is now working closely with IM to deploy EagleCam as soon as possible. The goal is that the resulting images will provide critical insight into the lander's orientation, health and additional mission support.
More information will be released as soon as it becomes available.

[quartz rivet]

EagleCam W

[polar fog]

Imagine if it actually deployed during and we got to see the lander tip over lol

[quartz rivet]

we were robbed

[rich nexus]

the lander should roll so eaglecam is on the bottom and use it to launch itself upright

[deep oriole]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/24/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-successful-landing-of-the-odysseus-lunar-craft/

[south palm]

Joe

[sand ore]

So the last completely successful landing now is still Chandrayan 3

[steep sail]

we have jone

[carmine matrix]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3vg7_HPuWw/?igsh=a2Z6OXg4NG9jbHh2

eraueaglecam

The EagleCam team are using tools available in the @spacetechnologieslab to simulate what we can expect to receive once EagleCam deploys. We are currently working with Intuitive Machines to determine a safe deployment time and strategy.

Likes

103

Instagram

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/SpaceTechLab/status/1761477687971831833

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

The EagleCam team are using tools available in the Space Technologies Lab to simulate what we can expect to receive once EagleCam deploys. We are currently working with Intuitive Machines to determine a safe deployment time and strategy.

Twitter · Feb 24, 2024, 7:46 PM

[quartz rivet]

10/10 mockup

[tame viper]

100% real

[dusk tide]

99% real

[fading forge]

maybe real

[round flicker]

hm still no pictures

[fading forge]

https://tenor.com/view/despite-all-my-rage-despite-cat-gif-24628181

[broken sequoia]

I’m still just a cat with…. ?

[river olive]

frosting

[broken sequoia]

Doesn’t rhyme though

[covert osprey]

brain damage

[hollow bough]

https://fxtwitter.com/int_machines/status/1762111937490378942?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

https://fxtwitter.com/int_machines/status/1762111939142885816?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

https://fxtwitter.com/int_machines/status/1762111943161037015?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

https://fxtwitter.com/int_machines/status/1762111945291755652?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

[river olive]

Finally an update

[round flicker]

Still no pics from the surface rip

[sick moss]

Does that mean they'll only have comms until tomorrow? That's a lot less then the 9 to 10 days mentioned during the briefing on friday.

[quartz rivet]

Well their solar panels aren't exactly correctly positioned

[cerulean canopy]

On the briefing they said 9 to 10 days was the maximum for any orientation and that they'd look at what the current orientation would let them do over the stay on the surface

[proud dawn]

Still no Eagle Cam

It’s so over

[hollow bough]

Oh dear
They literally landed at one of the worst spots of the immediate area within several km...
https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/layers?extent=-1.8206479%2C-80.4030766%2C4.1311538%2C-79.8476533&id=lroc&showGraticule=true&showTerrain=true&queryOpts=N4IgLghgRiBcIBMKRAXyA&trailType=0&features=1.43520800%2C-80.12806200&layers=NrBsFYBoAYchGSIDMz4BYF0QOwK4A2BkA3gL4C6FplSyATPAOzZYrIAcHWs0AdOhb4iNasGTp49LIlyFi5KqIpA&proj=27&time=2024-02-24T14%3A15%3A58.856Z

The actual landing site is the light blue arrow
The green ones are the possible target sites per http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8690&view=findpost&p=263047
You can see that IM-1 literally landed on a crater slope (12 degrees per above) steepest around its region (the target sites are around 3-6 km away)

[broken sequoia]

well, that’s something I guess

Seems like they’ll not be able to get info from all the experiments unless they survive the night somehow though

[sinful glen]

Let’s hope IM-1 was over-engineered enough to survive lunar night

I doubt it quite a bit but hey there’s a possibility

[round flicker]

https://x.com/ILOA_Hawaii/status/1762203591962767780?s=20

ILOA_Hawaii (@ILOA_Hawaii) on X

We received images from the Moon surface via our ILO-X cameras aboard @Int_Machines! Thankful for our payload developer / contractor @Canadensys1. We will share our images publicly as soon as we are able. 🌙

Twitter · Feb 26, 2024, 7:50 PM

[quartz rivet]

EagleCam keeps teasing that they're not done yet...

If it's gonna die on Tuesday anyways just deploy the thing it doesn't even matter if everything goes wrong

[round flicker]

https://x.com/SpaceTechLab/status/1762248901199909357?s=20

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

1/2: The EagleCam and Intuitive Machines teams are working hard to deploy EagleCam and downlink images ASAP. The EagleCam team has been busy doing engineering tasks.

Twitter · Feb 26, 2024, 10:50 PM

https://x.com/SpaceTechLab/status/1762248999128428790?s=20

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

2/2: Using backup hardware and copies of software, we have rewritten processes and procedures for deployment given our best estimate of configuration. We remain excited to demonstrate EagleCam’s capabilities!

Twitter · Feb 26, 2024, 10:51 PM

[calm mesa]

translated: “fuck it we ball”

[quartz rivet]

Yup lol

[hollow bough]

https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1762490074048958522

Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) on X

Flight Controllers continue to communicate with Odysseus. This morning, Odysseus efficiently sent payload science data and imagery in furtherance of the Company’s mission objectives. Flight controllers are working on final determination of battery life on the lander, which may…

Twitter · Feb 27, 2024, 2:49 PM

https://fxtwitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1762490076741644689

Probably only 10-20 hours left for the lander

[quartz rivet]

Wen EagleCam

[broken vapor]

They need to tweet "EagleCam has landed" upon deployment

[quartz rivet]

Considering it's a student group I'm sure they've got a bunch of clever tweets and stuff ready that they haven't been able to use yet

[high sparrow]

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-intuitive-machines-to-discuss-moon-mission-science-successes/

[proud dawn]

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/

Oh my god

Please read the article

What they did during landing was insane

[sick moss]

The fact that it didn't crash is an absolute miracle

[proud dawn]

As a result, the company scrambled to rewrite its software to take advantage of three telescopes on a NASA payload, the Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing, for altimetry purposes.

While this software patch mostly worked, Altemus said Tuesday that the flight computer onboard Odysseus was unable to process data from the NASA payload in real time. Therefore, the last accurate altitude reading the lander received came when it was 15 kilometers above the lunar surface—and still more than 12 minutes from touchdown.

That left the spacecraft, which was flying autonomously, to rely on its optical navigation cameras. By comparing imagery data frame by frame, the flight computer could determine how fast it was moving relative to the lunar surface. Knowing its initial velocity and altitude prior to initiating powered descent and using data from the inertial measurement unit (IMU) on board Odysseus, it could get a rough idea of altitude. But that only went so far.

Unfortunately, as it neared the lunar surface, the lander believed it was about 100 meters higher relative to the Moon than it actually was. So instead of touching down with a vertical velocity of just 1 meter per second and no lateral movement, Odysseus was coming down three times faster and with a lateral speed of 2 meters per second.

This is just absolutely fucking nuts

[sick moss]

👀

The company has an incredible photo of this moment showing the lander upright, with the snapped leg and the engine still firing. Altemus plans to publicly release this photo Wednesday.

[high sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/astra-departure-gif-23551863

[broken sequoia]

main engine throttled down over 24,000 mph
what does that mean

[rich nexus]

holy shit?

[south palm]

The fact that they were able to land despite having a major landing instrument malfunction is a massive vote of confidence in them for me

[broken sequoia]

maybe I’ll have some confidence in them once they figure out how to display telemetry

[round flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/its-uncanny-how-easy-it-is-easy-astra-space-rocket-gif-22873262

[round flicker]

I have no other words to describe what I have just read than:

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-moment-gif-19092556

[broken vapor]

How the hell did it survive

[proud dawn]

That shit was not supposed to land softly

[static garnet]

That shit was not supposed to land~~ softly~~

[broken vapor]

That shit was not supposed to land softly

[steep sail]

OHMY

[calm mesa]

initiative marches moment

[quartz rivet]

Chad lander was literally blind while approaching the moon at thousands of miles per hour and still landed well enough to be operational

This also explains why they didn't deploy EagleCam actually

they didn't know when they were passing deployment altitude at all

[broken sequoia]

oh! I didn’t think of this but yeah!!!

[dusk tide]

https://tenor.com/view/mujikcboro-seriymujik-gif-24361533

IM-1

[carmine matrix]

when eaglecam

[proud dawn]

Tonight

Well

In a few hours

I hope

[quartz rivet]

there's gotta be a "fuck it we ball" point where the lander is about to die and there's literally nothing to lose

but probably trying to maximize the missions of all other payloads before deploying a projectile that has a nonzero chance of hitting the lander

[round flicker]

I’m hoping for another detailed 3D printed model demonstration here

He said they’ve done everything possible, and used all payloads 🤔

Hasn’t mentioned eagle cam specifically tho

[cerulean canopy]

Spain called out, we won

[sick moss]

https://tenor.com/view/smiling-cat-creepy-cat-cat-zoom-kitty-gif-14972814

[round flicker]

“We learned that we communicated in a way that not everyone was satisfied with”

but he’s saying that communications come out of Mission Control sporadically

Picture

[cursive sail]

are you watching the live broadcast?

[round flicker]

on surface with engine firing

yes

"our navigation system landed us with precision"
bruh your thing thought it was 100m above where it actually was

wide angle of same thing

[round flicker]

that angle is horrible

[round flicker]

cant see anything

...is that it

[dapper merlin]

It's basically looking toward the bottom of the lander

first pic is upright just at landing

second is tilted over

[round flicker]

yea ig but its still not a very wide angle lens

"We need more cameras"

[dapper merlin]

more struts too, clearly

[round flicker]

they had a 3rd team getting eagle cam ready for deployment

or have idk

[fading forge]

or jsut autostrut

[round flicker]

they're walking thru all the different payloads rn

SCALPS did not operate during descent, but they changed how they were collecting data and operated it this morning

RFMG was able to collect data during tanking on the ground, transit, and during descent

one of these reporters better ask about eagle cam

rahh 3D demo

[quartz rivet]

Give the people what they want! (EagleCam)

[dapper merlin]

"30 degrees off the surface", 12 degree slope + helium tank

[round flicker]

helium tank = 18 degrees clearly

[dapper merlin]

5 hours

[round flicker]

oh so they didn't forget to remove a pin

they forgot a wire that dsables said switch

confusing as hell

So they integrated the NDL but not correctly, so the NASA LiDAR didn't actually do anything and only relied on the optical navigation

EAGLECAM QUESITON

"unfortunately we couldn't get to that with the powered descent, but this morning we were able to reset the eagle cam, and ejected it"
"however it in the wifi or camera system, it might not be working and we're not getting a signal back but they're working on it"

so it borked

[tame viper]

[calm mesa]

ffs

[carmine matrix]

propulsive landing in the lunar regolith? good luck.

(/j obv)

[carmine matrix]

oh fuck 💀

https://x.com/genejm29/status/1762934497421484270?s=20

Gene J. Mikulka (@genejm29) on X

Want to fly #EagleCam again

Twitter · Feb 28, 2024, 8:15 PM

well there’s this at least

[broken vapor]

Holy hell

[broken vapor]

We switched from "KSP mimics reality" to "reality mimics KSP"

[round flicker]

:0

wait i think that was taken out of context, ik what question he's referencing

The IM guys seemed pretty hesitant and said it would be up to the University, which gives me the impression that Embry Riddle is paying for something significant along the way and might not be willing to fund it again

Keep in mind that we also have images coming from these guys tomorrow:
https://iloa.org/

[hollow bough]

No joy alas

https://x.com/spacetechlab/status/1762979101239898130?s=61

https://x.com/spacetechlab/status/1762979276360479156?s=61

https://x.com/spacetechlab/status/1762979457550123347?s=61

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

1/3 The EagleCam team is incredibly proud to be the first university student-built payload on the Moon. With the challenges presented by the off-nominal landing configuration of the Odysseus lander, the student team has been working tirelessly over the past five days to adapt

Twitter · Feb 28, 2024, 11:12 PM

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

2/3 mission plans and procedures in order to deploy its CubeSat camera system. Despite the team’s strong effort, the technical complications ultimately resulted in an inability to capture images of the Odysseus lander.

Twitter · Feb 28, 2024, 11:13 PM

Space Technologies Lab (@SpaceTechLab) on X

3/3 However, the team was able to collect other data sets from the EagleCam system, and this data will be analyzed and published in the near future. See the link for the full update. https://t.co/LaIV5Lyr21

Twitter · Feb 28, 2024, 11:13 PM

[river olive]

You included the first tweet twice

[hollow bough]

Fixed
Shame on my iPad lagging

[river olive]

Fair enough

It is unfortunate though

[hollow bough]

https://x.com/iloa_hawaii/status/1763027003874414692?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

ILOA_Hawaii (@ILOA_Hawaii) on X

@ILOA_Hawaii Receives First Moon Surface and Lunar Descent Images from ILO-X Aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 Nova-C Lander Odysseus: https://t.co/0lkjzASa2h

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 2:22 AM

https://x.com/iloa_hawaii/status/1763031928671007128?s=46&t=9j2-lzDcIbRK6McrWkEb9g

ILOA_Hawaii (@ILOA_Hawaii) on X

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 2:42 AM

[river olive]

THAT GOES SO HARD

OMG

[rich nexus]

HOLY SHIT

[calm mesa]

GOES UNBELIEVABLY HARD

[river olive]

Like

That is the moon

And that thing is gonna land on it

Let that set in for a sec

It’s just so badass

[rich nexus]

you can hear the 80s rock music

[river olive]

Looking at that image while listening to this song goes soooooo insanely incredibly hard https://open.spotify.com/track/2URDbWGmPz3vhagl25p8OC?si=c96s-SMfT-O2Y4dN8EkwqA&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Atran

[round flicker]

To date, ILOA has received 9 high-resolution and 105 thumbnail images from the ILO-X imagers which will be shared as soon as the data has been processed internally.

There may also be a last-minute opportunity for instrument contractors at Canadensys to try and image the lunar surface with the ILO-X WFoV before the instruments are powered down.

seems like we have another 7 images yet to come

[river olive]

Let’s gooooooo

I hope they go really hard

[round flicker]

Some more context on the images:
Image 1:

This high-res image was taken from the surface of the Moon by ILOA’s ILO-X wide field-of-view imager at ~00:30 UTC on 25 February 2024. It shows portions of the lunar landscape, regolith / dust, the Sun, the IM-1 Odysseus lunar lander, and a presumed lens crack.

Image 2:

This image from ILOA’s ILO-X wide field-of-view imager was taken on 22 February 2024 about 4.2 minutes prior to touchdown which occurred 23:24 UTC. It shows craters in the Moon South Pole region as well as the IM-1 Odysseus lunar lander.

[polar fog]

How many pictures is EagleCam (as intended originally at least) supposed to take?

Like is it more of a video or a slideshow?

[round flicker]

https://news.erau.edu/headlines/eagles-to-land-first-student-project-on-moon-snap-selfie-of-lunar-landing

from this article it seems like they were aiming to take one "selfie" then a before picture with dust and after for testing dust removal using an electrostatic field

[river olive]

https://vxtwitter.com/DDAVISSPACEART/status/1762951458641842492

[fading forge]

https://x.com/Zvezdichko/status/1763165537255768251?s=20

Светльо - КОСМОС БГ 🇺🇦 (@Zvezdichko) on X

@AJ_FI Phil Stooke has edited the ILO-X image and found something interesting there... A landing leg, perhaps, lying in the distance.

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 11:33 AM

[dusk tide]

sorry but IM-1 has the worst camera that ive ever seen on a lander

[fading forge]

nah

[dusk tide]

ok maybe the soviet mars lander beats it

prime photography right there

[hollow bough]

The image should actually be flipped 90 degrees

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/zvezdichko/status/1763165537255768251?s=46&t=SMbYM7wvp4yImXva6dTuCg

Светльо - КОСМОС БГ 🇺🇦 (@Zvezdichko) on X

@AJ_FI Phil Stooke has edited the ILO-X image and found something interesting there... A landing leg, perhaps, lying in the distance.

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 11:33 AM

[river olive]

How https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1763223378293395535

Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) on X

Still kicking, Odysseus continues to operate on the lunar surface. At approximately 1100 CST flight controllers intend to downlink additional data and command Odie into a configuration that he may phone home if and when he wakes up when the sun rises again. 
(29FEB2024 0922 CST)

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 3:23 PM

[steep sail]

of fucking course there's a dipshit with their one collective joke in the replies https://fxtwitter.com/livngthedrm/status/1763223854304870446

[broken vapor]

what is a helicpotor

[sinful glen]

10/10 joke, bad timing

also it should've died out as a joke in 2017-ish

[carmine matrix]

it was never a good joke

[broken sequoia]

I think it was funny the first time, but we’re a little past that by now

[river olive]

Yeah like most jokes, it died out

[river olive]

It was, but not anymore

[sinful glen]

Not really funny now but it 100% was back when people first came up with it

It’s like a textbook example of a political joke that genuinely should have died years ago

[polar fog]

Tbf it is staring directly into the Sun

[broken sequoia]

come to think of it there was a camera on a lunar lander that handled that much less well wasn’t there

Apollo 12 was the first mission to use the color camera on the lunar surface. About 42 minutes into telecasting the first EVA, astronaut Alan Bean inadvertently pointed the camera at the Sun while preparing to mount it on the tripod. The Sun's extreme brightness burned out the video pickup tube, rendering the camera useless.
Yeo

[carmine matrix]

trans people were the butt of the joke the entire time though

so yeah no i don’t really think it was ever okay

whether or not everyone making the joke knew the context doesn’t mean the context didn’t exist

[broken sequoia]

I don’t know, that post was specifically about sexual rather than gender identity. You could say it was in poor taste, and it has been since used to mock trans people which is not ok, but as a one-off thing it wouldn’t be unfunny

Still, it very quickly became that way and hasn’t changed for many years

[dusk tide]

the classic

[river olive]

Here’s what I think: a few years ago, when the joke was popular, like 2015-2017ish, making fun of trans people wasn’t as looked down upon. Jokes about trans people were far more common. Nowadays, it’s far less common, and definitely not okay. It was never ok, but standards were different then. The joke was funny then because it was okay to make that joke, but it’s not okay anymore. Times have changed I’d say. That’s my thought, cancel me if you want to.

[sinful glen]

WAIT WTF

THE LEG BROKE OFF????

[rich nexus]

theres a comparsion image somewhere where someone highlighted where the legs were pre and during landing

and one of the legs is visibly bent into frame (and probalby no longer attached to the vehicle) from the left (not to mention the obviously broken one in the middle)

lemmie dig it up

actually i think the leg that we see bent out of shape in the image may actually be the one that fell off

[high sparrow]

https://x.com/int_machines/status/1763336444976697696

Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) on X

Before its power was depleted, Odysseus completed a fitting farewell transmission. Received today, this image from February 22nd showcases the lunar vista with the crescent Earth in the backdrop, a subtle reminder of humanity’s presence in the universe.

Goodnight, Odie. We hope…

Twitter · Feb 29, 2024, 10:52 PM

[rich nexus]

how did i get sniped on this wtf

beautiful shot

[static garnet]

most intelligent twitter reply

[fading forge]

https://tenor.com/view/squidward-twitter-stupid-dumb-brainless-gif-20425888

[river olive]

Wth https://twitter.com/amsatdl/status/1770549828960784465?t=v2NrkZLKsrPOiZnNBxV_eQ&s=19

AMSAT-DL (@amsatdl) on X

Are we really seeing #IM1 @Int_Machines again?
https://t.co/KYKeg5EZ4q

Twitter · Mar 20, 2024, 8:35 PM

[dusk tide]

it woke up?

[steep sail]

Kosmos-2518

[river olive]

What about it

[steep sail]

It's not IM-1

[river olive]

Ohh I see

[boreal jolt]

https://twitter.com/amsatdl/status/1770579682188050591

AMSAT-DL (@amsatdl) on X

Unfortunately the signal we thought it could be #IM1 @Int_Machines is in fact from COSMOS 2518. Too proof it, we moved our 20m antenna to COSMOS 2518 and found it to be very strong.. thus, we were receiving it through a side lobe. 😵‍💫

Twitter · Mar 20, 2024, 10:34 PM

[sinful glen]

💀

[sick moss]

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1770928217462824972

Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) on X

At the Goddard Space Science Symposium, Trent Martin of Intuitive Machines says the sun is now in view of the IM-1 lander after the lunar night. Listening now and will be for a couple days to see if it survived and is transmitting, but highly unlikely it will.

Twitter · Mar 21, 2024, 9:39 PM

[rose meadow]

IM-2 discussions here?

[summer oriole]

I assume?