From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Snidely  scribbled something on Friday the 2/23/2024:   
   > After serious thinking Alain Fournier wrote :   
   >> Intuitive Machines had a lander touchdown on the moon a little over an hour   
   >> ago.   
   >>   
   >> Unfortunately communications with the spacecraft seem to be iffy.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Alain Fournier   
   >   
   > Faint signal detected after several minutes, with both ground and robot   
   > systems expected to cycle, perhaps several times.   
   >   
   > We're now about an hour into the IM/NASA post-landing news conference.  I've   
   > just got onto the stream, and a quick thumbnail scan doesn't seem to have any   
   > imaging from the lander ... I'll rewind and watch more carefully, but ....   
   >   
   > There's a hint where I jumped in that antenna orientation on the lander is   
   > part of the issue.   
   >   
   >   
   > /dps   
      
   News Conf wrapped at 3:20 pst, so just in time for rush hour at JSC.   
   There appears to be at least one picture that looks to be a fisheye   
   format.   
      
   Odysseus is not expected to survive the lunar night, so 9 days   
   operation expected.   
      
   I'm rewinding now, to get the portions of the stream I missed live.   
      
   /dps   
      
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