From: mikko.levanto@iki.fi   
      
   On 2024-02-24 02:51:12 +0000, Alain Fournier said:   
      
   > On 2024-02-23 6:34 p.m., Snidely wrote:   
   >> On Friday, Snidely exclaimed wildly:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I've now gone back to the point where they talk about catching a toe   
   >> and tipping over and being propped up by a rock.  Might affect antenna   
   >> aiming.   
   >   
   > Japan's SLIM tipped over and now Odysseus. Staying up right on an   
   > unprepared surface is not always that easy. That might be a problem for   
   > SpaceX's Starship HLS. Starship being very tall, that might make it   
   > more prone to tipping over.   
      
   There should be an immediate return option after touching groud with one   
   or two feet if the orientation does not stay within tolerances.   
      
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