From: alain245@videotron.ca   
      
   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.   
      
      
   Alain Fournier   
      
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