IM-1 Lands On The Moon
DW Coverage of The IM-1 Lunar Landing
Deutsche Welle
Keith’s note: IM-1 landing has landed. My lunar landing talking head dance card for today (so far):
- 6:00 am BBC 5 Live radio
- 8:00 am KTRH radio
- 1:50 pm Bloomberg radio/TV [Audio]
- 2:20 pm Alhurra TV [Audio]
4:20 Bloomberg radio/TV- 5:30 BBC 5 Live radio
- 6:00 pm Deutsche Welle TV [Audio]
6:30 pm CGTN (cancelled – overlap)- 6:20 Bloomberg – Live landing
- 7:00 pm ARD TV
- 8:00 pm Deutsche Welle TV [Audio]
8:30 pm BBC World Servicescrubbed(Friday) 2:00 pm CGTNscrubbed
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Kudos to Intuitive Machines. For a 2nd time this year a lander has landed sideways. The first was the Japanese SLIM. Sound engineering principles would recommend a lower CG, a wider landing gear stance, and flat, smooth and level landing sites.
The lack of images from the surface in today’s delayed press release was disappointing.
The design of the LM-1 craft impressed me as top-heavy from the first time I saw it – three times taller than it is wide. It made me think of the very wide low stance of Surveyor-3, which Apollo 12 astronauts visited on the surface. It I was Intuitive Machines, I’d be looking at a serious redesign before the next attempt. This seems like more than a software problem, and makes me wonder about how Starship is going to fare as a lunar lander.
I agree, it is too bad they did not use logic, intelligence and good design principles. Unfortunately almost none of the NASA ‘retirees’ have any real engineering design experience anymore.