It's landed, they are getting communications from it, eventually after some nail biting moments for them. Cornwall playing it's critical role in detecting the signal from the US craft. Don't think they know exactly where it's landed but I think it was designed to choose a safe landing place itself if it encountered problems - must admit I thought they'd lost it at first. They are now searching for the precise location of where the signal is coming from ie it is transmitting.
Five minute video covering last nights events... please log in to view this image Intuitive Machines @Int_Machines · 11h 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.
Seems to be functioing ok according to this tweet... please log in to view this image Intuitive Machines @Int_Machines 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 information (Lat/Lon), overall health, and attitude (orientation). Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus will participate in a press conference later today to discuss this historic moment. Press conference information will be coordinated with NASA and published shortly. 2:18 PM · Feb 23, 2024
Landing and communicating is progress. What happens after this I'm not so sure. Will whatever probe they release to explore the area end up at the bottom of a crater I'm not so sure.
Bored of moon and Mars landers, we need to have a go at landing on something a bit more alive, geologically and possibly biologically, before I die. JUICE is on it's way, but aint gonna get to jupiter for 10 years. We need better propulsion.
Makes me laugh finding somewhere else to live I mean another planet if God intended humans to **** up another one of his planets/moons then he would have put us there. Its Earth for us and that’s it end game rich people thinking like rich people have always done out of their arse
My guess is the immediate intention is not for us to live on another planet/moon but for us to resource some of it's materials (although yes to mine, you would have to stay for periods at a time), ones that are getting rare on Earth. Which will then probably start more sqabbles between the US, China and Russia or any other leading power (India). The suddden eagerness to get back on the moon is all about the long term finanacial benefits for those that win the race, all about money as always - rich people burning money for a reason. At the moment it seems the attention is on water ice, but that will then evolve.
The Dream Chaser cargo system, manufactured by Sierra Space in Louisville, Colorado, consists of two major elements: the Dream Chaser spacecraft and the Shooting Star cargo module. As a lifting body spacecraft, Dream Chaser is designed to be reused up to 15 times, and is modified from the HL-20 spacecraft developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The spaceplane’s cargo module companion, Shooting Star, is designed to support delivery and disposal of pressurized and unpressurized cargo to and from the space station. The cargo module can be used only once and is disposed of prior to re-entry. The Dream Chaser system will launch with its wings folded inside a five-meter fairing aboard a ULA (United Launch Alliance) Vulcan Centaur rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The fairing panels will protect the spacecraft during ascent but are jettisoned once in orbit. Solar arrays mounted on the cargo module and wings of Dream Chaser are deployed during its autonomous rendezvous to the space station. In the event of a scrub, Dream Chaser is designed to be ready for launch in as little as 24 hours. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/stati...ser-new-station-resupply-spacecraft-for-nasa/
@duggie2000 I know how much you love my really long explanation clips, only 9 mins To be fair to the kid, it didn't seem that long, so his explantion was worth posting...
Sauds have their own AI powered robots now. https://www.businessinsider.com/sau...ly-touched-female-reporter-video-shows-2024-3 At it's unveiling it appears to have grabbed the butt of a female reporter. The company claim this was just unfortunate, woman in way of the arm... But being Saudi Arabia, one can never know. AI should improve Saudi efficiency. Now they can sexually assault women with the power of computers to aid them.
