February 20, 20242 yr If the landing is a success the Intuitive Machines IM-1 lander will be conducting a number of technology tests in preparation for our return to the Moon.
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February 23, 20242 yr 4:24 "he he , if we can find that water, we can live off of that water" Edited February 23, 20242 yr by Fielder 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
February 23, 20242 yr Author 8 hours ago, Fielder said: 4:24 "he he , if we can find that water, we can live off of that water" Well we know lots of water is there, in crater shadows. Was that one of the objectives, to sniff out water, hadn't heard that.
February 23, 20242 yr Over 50 years after landing twelve men on the Moon, NASA have pushed the boat out once again, and.....er.......landed a small tub on the Moon. Congratulations, I guess Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
February 23, 20242 yr Author 9 minutes ago, Christopher Low said: .landed a small tub Actually, apparently its not that small. I was surprised to find its 13 feet tall and 5 fret wide. 😲 Quote The Odysseus Lander is a hexagonal cylinder, 4.0 meters tall and 1.57 meters wide, on 6 landing legs with a launch mass of 1908 kg. It is capable of carrying approximately 100 kg of payload to the surface. It uses solar panels to generate 200 W of power on the surface, using a 25 amp-hr battery and a 28 VDC system. Propulsion and landing use liquid methane as fuel and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer powering a 3100 N main engine mounted on the bottom of the lander. Communications are via S-band. The scientific payload includes the Laser Retro-Reflector Array (LRA), Navigation Doppler Lidar for Precise Velocity and Range Sensing (NDL), Lunar Node 1 Navigation Demonstrator (LN-1), Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS), and Radio wave Observation at the Lunar Surface of the photoElectron Sheath (ROLSES). In total there are five NASA and four commercial payloads planned.
February 24, 20242 yr Author It seems the lander is lying on its side, propped up on a rock. And the reason the LIDAR wouldn't work is because engineers at the Kenedy space centre forgot to turn off the "eye safe" switch on the lasers. 🤔 Edited February 24, 20242 yr by martin-w
February 24, 20242 yr 9 hours ago, martin-w said: forgot to turn off the "eye safe" switch on the lasers. "With your remaining eye, do NOT look back into the laser." Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
February 24, 20242 yr 11 hours ago, martin-w said: It seems the lander is lying on its side, propped up on a rock. Sounds fine to me. Don't know about anyone else, but it can be nice to lay down and take a nap after a long flight.
February 24, 20242 yr The IM-1 Odysseus landed at or near the Malapert A Crater, which is interesting because the site of Moonbase Alpha in Space 1999 was Malapert Crater, a little further south. I wonder why Arthur C. Clarke chose Clavius Crater for the moon base in 2001 A Space Odyssey. "Moonbase Alpha is constructed in the crater Malapert near the lunar south pole. The location was chosen for several features. It is on the near side of the Moon, so Earth is always directly visible. Parts are exposed to permanent sunlight, vital for solar power. The southern ridge (Malapert Mountain) has a face that is in the radio shadow of Earth, so was chosen as an ideal site for a radio telescope. Beneath the crater floor are the "catacombs". These are networks of tunnels and caverns formed in the Plato aquifer, a very fractured basalt cauldron subsidence structure. It is sealed within ring dykes and capped by a lava sheet over the caldera floor. A large batholith below fed in juvenile water through peripheral conduits. The water spread laterally from the conduits, excavating the faults into caves. Metamorphism, both pneumatolysis and hydrothermal processes, created a very rich mineralogy. This was therefore the obvious site to construct Moonbase Alpha, the catacombs forming the basis of the lower levels of the base while the water reservoirs were tapped and the minerals mined." https://catacombs.space1999.net/main/maog/maog4.html Edited February 24, 20242 yr by dmwalker Dugald Walker
February 25, 20242 yr Moderator 6 hours ago, goates said: Sounds fine to me. Don't know about anyone else, but it can be nice to lay down and take a nap after a long flight. The poor dear was exhausted from such a long flight. It has to rest for awhile. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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