Private company landing on the moon today
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Private company landing on the moon today
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Re: Private company landing on the moon today
#2The private lander's mission control looks like the proverbial two-pizza team.
Would it that the silent revolution in spaceflight, hidden under the glamour of reusable rockets, is incredibly sophisticated telemetry, communication, on-board automation? A computing stack that's making the 1x mission control a 10x mission control?
I understand there will be other teams elsewhere (delivery vehicle, remote sensing etc. etc.). But that image is rad too --- from one or a few space agencies co-orchestrating a program to multiples more doing so.
Obviously some version of this has been going on for decades, but somehow the imagery on their website struck a chord.
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#3Curious question: as a private company, how do you determine your lunar orbit parameters after a burn?
Are they leveraging Earth/orbit-based radar? Or satellites around the moon? Or something else?
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#4The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing.
We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
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#5Where is the live stream?
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#6Is this the first time for pvt company...?
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#7Landing in ~ 8 hours.
"The Odysseus moon lander is aiming for a 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) lunar landing"
https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-landi...
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#9The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
Experience is irreproducible. It depends on too many factors, we even don't know the full list of them, and some of them change irreversibly with time passing. You will not be 10 years old anymore. It is not a good reason for a depression, you can experience world now like you couldn't being a 10 year old boy.
Re: Private company landing on the moon today
#10The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
How dare they attempt to defray their costs.