Posted on 02/25/2024 12:09:42 PM PST by DoodleBob
Stock in Intuitive Machines sharply dropped in after-hours trading Friday after the company’s Odyessus lunar lander tipped over when it landed on the moon’s surface. The extreme stock move shows just how hard it is to trade events that will move a small capitalization stock.
Intuitive and NASA held a news conference on Friday evening. The lander “is stable, near or at the intended landing site,” said Intuitive CEO Steve Altemus. One hiccup though—the lander is on its side.
Altemus said the craft was going 25,000 miles an hour in orbit and landed at about 6 miles an hour, with a horizontal speed of about 2 miles an hour—a comfortable walking pace. The company believes one of the lander’s feet caught on something on the way down, causing it to trip.
NASA’s associate administrator for space technology, Dr. Prasun Desai, still called the landing a success.“Congratulations to the Intuitive machines. An amazing successful landing,” he said.
Indeed, the spacecraft’s journey marked the first soft landing on the moon for a U.S. entity in some 50 years. What’s more, Odysseus landed on the moon autonomously—the first-ever such landing for an American company.
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No fatalities is a success.
Lol.
Retro rockets.
So is Alice
Retro rockets ?????
4 minutes or so
Well at least they’re not recording in portrait mode.
The spacecraft conducted a 408 second burn of its main engine in order to slow down enough to enter a lunar orbit. More info here: https://spacenews.com/im-1-lander-enters-lunar-orbit/
If you want to maximize the chance that a craft will land on its feet then it should be short and squat rather than tall and thin like Musk’s rockets.
Stupid journalist compressed what should have been several sentences of explanation into a single clause.
Regards,
Nasa would claim Challenger was a success since no one on the ground was hit. Hubble was a success since it only took one mission to put glasses on it to correct a mirror ground and polished to the wrong figure. Columbia completed it’s mission. Just had a hard landing.
Need Another Seven Astronauts X 2
If I had money to invest, I’d place it on Intuitive Machines
right now.
A Tesla on the moon for astronauts to drive around in. Cool!
If I'm totally wrong about this, my apologies but I would like for a smarter FReeper to weigh in on this please!
It wouldn’t, of course. The moon has a much weaker gravitational field and therefore orbital speed around the moon would be much slower.
You forgot Apollo 1.
That mission was successful because no astronauts were lost in space.
;-)
If I recall, 25K is earth escape velocity which is needed to get to the moon.
“...near or at the intended landing site...”
Near or at the landing site?? Which is it, Dr Doofus?
“...An amazing successful landing...”
Except it fell over, Dr. Dumbass.
Just typical BS double speak.
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