From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   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   
      
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   Well hung: curricle-hung in fact. Come sit by me and we'll test the   
   springs."   
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