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Guys... its 250,000 miles away and there is limited bandwidth. quit complaining.
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Nova-c antennas as sticking straight down into the lunar surface.
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View Quote I know, but my point is still valid |
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View Quote They had better electronics back then and much better 3D printers....and more of a diverse set of engineers |
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They mention a recycling of the radios after 15 minutes then switching antenna pairs.
"We're not dead yet." Faint signal from the high gain antenna |
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So we put men on the moon using the equivalent computing power of a Ti-85 calculator and managed to communicate with them but 50+ years later and giant leaps in technology and yet still we aren't seeing common, reliable moon landings? ??
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"Signal detected"
Hmm... maybe it's "Elon: Umm, why don't I just make the lander too....." |
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Its alive...ish
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Quoted: "Signal detected" Hmm... maybe it's "Elon: Umm, why don't I just make the lander too....." View Quote SpaceX is already working on one. |
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The mission director said the lander is on the moon and transmitting. What the status/orientation is unknown but it may take 30 minutes or more.
Some one will have a cartoon of the SLIM lander on its nose and IM-1 on top of it. |
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I will keep checking their website for additional details. It may take hours or days.
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They seemed encouraged by the signal that the lander was healthy.
If so, Americans are still kings of the moon. |
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Should'a been doing this monthly or bi-annually since 1969...
No telling what we would have learned by now... |
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View Quote There goes my cartoon of the IM-1 lander on top of the SLIM lander. |
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View Quote Maybe we will get pictures from the Eagle cams that were ejected (or should have been) prior to landing to catch the landing from the ground. |
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WTF over
I watched every attached youtube link and have seen no actual landing of anything! Just simulations of what it looked like! As advanced as we claim to be we could not get any actual video of this event? |
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View Quote This thread didn't age well, too bad it already dumped usernames in the archives. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/-ARCHIVED-THREAD-ULA-leaps-ahead-of-SpaceX-with-rocket-being-loaded-with-a-moon-lander-craft/5-2696300/?page=1 |
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I wonder if I'll be around when we are doing regular missions to the moon.
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View Quote Interesting..... |
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Quoted: NASA probably paid billions for that. This mission was surely far less. Maybe $100 million but I have never seen a cost for it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Don't/didn't we get a video feed from the Mars rover? NASA probably paid billions for that. This mission was surely far less. Maybe $100 million but I have never seen a cost for it. I remember the choppy video of a lander with a parachute and a heat shield detaching. The lander landed and the delivery vehicle separated and crashed as designed away from the lander. Not sure what mission that was. Also not sure that was live video. Pretty sure it was just a dump over the datalink when the antennas (planets) were in optimum positions once or twice a day. |
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I mean it's really cool and all but didn't we land on the moon more than 50 years ago? Not sure what the big deal would be anymore.
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