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    Der IM-2-Lander von Intuitive Maschinen wird wahrscheinlich auf den Mond gekippt

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    1. 675longtail on

      Press Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mMJxIttBc

      – IMU showing Z-axis is vertical which suggests vehicle is on its side (exactly the same as IM-1)
      – Major questions about what payloads (if any) will be operable in this orientation
      – Batteries charging, power is positive, stable communications with lander

    2. Glucose12 on

      Dang! At this point, it seems like a good survival mechanism to have a pusher arm at the top of the spacecraft that can push it back over to the vertical. /s

      Sigh.

    3. RulerOfSlides on

      CLPS has been such a resounding success with 1 out of 5 attempts actually making it to the Moon in a useful configuration.

      WTF are we doing??

    5. SuperRiveting on

      I shouldn’t laugh but the posts and comments are bear a carbon copy of IM1.

    6. randomtask on

      Well, at least they’re consistent. Still, you’d have thought they’d have figured out how to not do this again.

    7. Aleyla on

      Maybe they could put the next one in a giant ball. Then just let it roll around, with most of the weight to one side so it will just naturally settle in the right orientation. Then deflate the ball.

      Or they could put the thing in a cube cage with the ability to reorient everything inside the cage. Then the cage could just plop down on any side and it would flip around like an aerotrim.

    8. Derrickmb on

      Yeah, why are they building these landers that don’t have the right COG? Seems juvenile tbh

    10. thisiscotty on

      Sometimes I wonder why space craft are never fitted with flippers or something to push them selves up if something like this happens

    13. guanzo91 on

      Armchair engineer here. How many times are they going to make the same mistakes lol. Seems crazy to me that they didn’t improve the design to prevent this from happening. How hard can it be to add some widget that prevents tipping or reorients itself after tipping. Better yet, design it so that tipping is irrelevant, like a spherical shape.

    14. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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      |[CLPS](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mgetpih „Last usage“)|[Commercial Lunar Payload Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services)|
      |[CoG](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mgeppvn „Last usage“)|Center of Gravity (see CoM)|
      |CoM|Center of Mass|
      |[IM](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mgesiuj „Last usage“)|Initial Mass deliverable to a given orbit, without accounting for fuel|
      |[IMU](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mgei5kk „Last usage“)|Inertial Measurement Unit|
      |[JAXA](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mgektb9 „Last usage“)|Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency|
      |[MER](/r/Space/comments/1j56r7x/stub/mget34a „Last usage“)|Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit/Opportunity)|
      | |Mission Evaluation Room in back of Mission Control|

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    17. TacosRgoood on

      Would strategically placed hydraulic arms help in a situation like this? That way, it can put itself right side up in the event that the landing doesn’t go smooth.

    18. Jedi_Emperor on

      Again? Can’t they build them with flippers to self-right like on Robot Wars?

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