America has once again landed on the Moon, sideways and first pics from lander!

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"we're not dead yet"

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something is alive on the lander at the least. Maybe a harsh landing, maybe everything is fine. No one knows

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celebration time!!!! Might be rough but we landed on the Moon!!!!

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Ballast sounds prerecorded. Don't know if it was an ace landing.

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Just ending coverage while it's potentially a half destroyed pile of wreckage lol

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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.

— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 23, 2024

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Pretty odd that we barely know anything. Only update is that the camera set to watch the landing was not deployed, due to issues before the landing attempt: EagleCam Updates: Camera System Deployment Forthcoming | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Newsroom

It's on the Moon and it's still alive, but it sure seems like they are struggling to communicate with it. A press conference will hopefully happen today to explain what they know and don't know.

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Pretty odd that we barely know anything. Only update is that the camera set to watch the landing was not deployed, due to issues before the landing attempt: EagleCam Updates: Camera System Deployment Forthcoming | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Newsroom

It's on the Moon and it's still alive, but it sure seems like they are struggling to communicate with it. A press conference will hopefully happen today to explain what they know and don't know.

WHAT CAN WE SAY? IT WAS A ROUGH LANDING. SEVERAL DOO-DADS FELL OFF AND WE ARE STRUGGLING TO TURN THEM BACK ON TO GET MORE INFORMATION.

Spoiler for Hidden:

<br>I don&#39;t know why I felt compelled to write this. <br><br>But here we are. &nbsp;<br><br>

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WHAT CAN WE SAY? IT WAS A ROUGH LANDING. SEVERAL DOO-DADS FELL OFF AND WE ARE STRUGGLING TO TURN THEM BACK ON TO GET MORE INFORMATION.

Spoiler for Hidden:

I don't know why I felt compelled to write this.

But here we are.  

Haha honestly I'd love to learn that. Right now the only facts are that the signal is faint and the lander is upright on the Moon. It might have been a perfect landing but have a boulder between it and Earth, it's all speculation fueled by their silence.

Started right after my post lol. Lander is on its side.

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Came in hot. 2 m/s sideways velocity so it tipped over and is resting on a rock.

Wonder why it had that extra velocity. Also had 4 m/s or so down.

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What an incredible mission all around. Got super super lucky.

They forgot to turn off the safety on the laser used for landing. It literally had a physical switch to enable it, and they forgot to enable it. Something else went wrong though so they tried using the laser the day before the landing. By the time they figured out it couldn't be switched on, they only had a few hours to cobble together an alternative solution using data from an unrelated payload. Very Apollo 13 like.

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Picture of the lander on the Moon. You can tell it's real because it looks so fake.

Edt: reddit removed the pic. This was a joke photoshop.

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Odysseus continues to communicate with flight controllers in Nova Control from the lunar surface. After understanding the end-to-end communication requirements, Odysseus sent images from the lunar surface of its vertical descent to its Malapert A landing site, representing the… pic.twitter.com/CuCkOVvBqu

— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 26, 2024

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It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data | Ars Technica

Wow. Hot fix did not work and it landed all on its own. No height data for the last 12 minutes of flight. Thought it still had 100 meters to go when it hit the ground.

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New photo right at landing with the engine blasting. Landing gear broken within the pic.

This image illustrates Odysseus' landing strut performing its primary task, absorbing first contact with the lunar surface to preserve mission integrity. Meanwhile, the lander's liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine is still throttling, which provided stability. The Company… pic.twitter.com/mket4T59SH

— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 28, 2024

Taken on February 27th, flight controllers commanded Odysseus to capture a new image using its narrow-field-of-view camera. Previous attempts to send photos from landing and the days following returned unusable imagery. After successfully transmitting the image to Earth, flight… pic.twitter.com/Qv0C3aSV9H

— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 28, 2024