Intuitive Machines lands near lunar south pole, but fate of private Athena probe unclear

[Admin]

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, landed near the moon's south pole today (March 6), but the probe's fate is unclear.

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[Viking]

Rocket science—it’s hard.

 

[Joexo]

Launch the next one already tipped so it will land straight

 

[Robert Lucien Howe]

Sadly another space company fails to learn one of the basic lessons from Kerbal Space Program. Tall top heavy landers fall over. I've had it happen to my own lander on the Mun so many times..

The big problem is simply finding and steering to a flat debris free piece of ground to land on. Not so easy when every course correction wastes more of your precious fuel.

Of course it would also help if we had actual working AI so we didn't need send a human to steer.

 

[Classical Motion]

I was hoping for some photos by now.

 

[Jim_LAX]

Launch the next one already tipped so it will land straight

Add a robotic Canada Arm at the top of the spacecraft so it can right itself from a tip over in any direction. Remove one NASA experiment to compensate for the added weight if necessary. It would be worth the loss of one experiment.