Intuitive Machines moon lander sends home a haunting crater picture ahead of touch down today

[Admin]

The Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander imaged a crater on the moon ahead of its expected landing today. It may soon become the first private lander to touch down on the moon.

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[Rob77]

Best of luck to the lander - hope we can get some video footage of the descent and land (rather than just photos). Still boggles the mind how this day and age we still get only photos from all these space expeditions (I understand the data packets to send are big, but to use an aussie expression.... c'mon.....).

 

[billslugg]

The problem is bandwidth. Space probes are short on power, have very narrow beam antennas, aren't able to keep them aimed properly during rapid descent maneuvers. An active aiming system to maintain lock on during descent would cost a lot of money, weight and power. They don't need it so they don't have it.

 

[Red Cloud]

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