Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission, CLPS mission with NASA and commercial payloads |
Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission, CLPS mission with NASA and commercial payloads |
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Solar System Cartographer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 10193 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 ![]() |
I am starting a new thread for this mission which should fly this year.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 20-November 05 From: Mare Desiderii Member No.: 563 ![]() |
Oof, the reason the laser rangefinder didn't work was that a safety switch (it's not eye-safe) wasn't disabled, and couldn't be disabled remotely by their software. They first discovered this while in lunar orbit (which was more elliptical than they'd planned; not sure if they'd have tried it if the orbit was nominal. [edit:] Irene Klotz asked: and no, they wouldn't have otherwise tried it before powered descent; would probably not have found out until 5 min before landing 😬)
[edit] Clarified later that it was a physical switch with no software override, not just that the software they had didn't know how to do it. |
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