Intuitive Machines Is About To Attempt A Second Moon Landing

Earlier this year in February Intuitive Machines, a public U.S. company, managed to touchdown on the Moon, albeit, sideways after the lander tipped over. While not ideal, they still managed to complete a decent amount of the mission’s original science goals and objectives. Interestingly, a lot of those objectives apply to the next lander which is in the final assembly stage right now.
The mission, named IM-2, a follow-up to IM-1, will again use the Nova-C lander, which was the same design as the previous lander. The main difference being a change in payloads and mission objectives once it lands on the surface, along with a few upgrades. Here I will go more in-depth into this lander’s current progress, alterations since the last launch, new objectives, and more.
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Credit:
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Second Try
3:43 - New Objectives

[@Sam_Saraguy]

Looks like an interesting company. I wish them well.

[@graysonbaker9053]

shoutout tim dillon

[@salty_berserker_channel]

you can invest in them. LUNR is their symbol. $3.60 a share. i bought a bunch. looks like a solid and and ambitious team

[@jjthejetplane11]

Yep. Really interesting company. Its the best example in history of a spaceflight of a stock company that takes full advantage of the stock market, and gets away with a multi million dollar scam with no good results. Yep, I wish them well too......

[@TheFlamingMoe1]

@@salty_berserker_channel ahahahaha

[@davidboyle1902]

Amazing that a small company may get to the moon twice in the same year. I wish the best of luck. Ad astra.

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

Looking forward to IM-2!🚀👍👍

[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

I hope this mission is successful.

[@Ron4885]

Me too. 👍

[@alexlabs4858]

Same I have a decent amount of stock. Wouldn’t have invested if I didn’t believe in them. Hope all goes well, or at least most goes well.

[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

@@alexlabs4858 What's the ticker?

[@The-KP]

I'm really liking this channel more and more. Dispassionate reporting on space technology news, without injecting a bunch of bias or opinion like them other blokes. 👏

[@marks7502]

thanks for the news

[@dissaid]

Thanks man !

[@galliumgames3962]

Got invited to see the launch of IM-1 through one of my college’s clubs, basically the entirety of the intuitive machines company was out there too to watch it go up. We don’t get to see much moon exploration anymore, so I hope we get to see even more with the second mission.

[@jshlds46]

Absolutely great informative video, Subscribed! Please continue to follow IM's progress and share updates with videos like this one.

[@NeilGros]

Sounds like a great plan good luck and congrats

[@tluangasailo3663]

two moon landing in a year!

[@Wurtoz9643]

4 counting SLIM and Chang'e 6

[@zander_the_space_nerd]

@@Wurtoz9643 5 counting Blue Ghost

[@richspillman4191]

All cartoons, woo hoo.

[@michelmilaneh8963]

​@@richspillman4191low iq statement

[@40MileDesertRat]

Here is to good luck and a great landing!

[@SebastianWellsTL]

Awesome!

[@robsin2810]

May the force be with you.

[@jameswilson5165]

Well done!

[@pranititiwari6525]

All the best🎉 congratulations 🎉

[@rippingbag]

Shareholder! LUNR

[@salty_berserker_channel]

mee too. bought in 3 times as their stock price dove. im underwater and will by even more

[@migs7220]

@@salty_berserker_channel seeing the response to simple reports during the first launch, I wish you the most profitable reactions for the next year or so and beyond!

[@richspillman4191]

@@salty_berserker_channel Why? Because they draw cartoons?

[@AlessandroFilippiUX]

Maybe if they make it even taller, with an even higher center of mass, they can flipt it 270 degrees and land square on the feet.

[@richspillman4191]

Exactly, who makes a lander so out of balance and not expect it to fall over!

[@dougburright7275]

Do they have the Earth spinning in the wrong direction, in the views from the Moon's surface?

[@crosslink1493]

It looks like it at just after 4:10. Good catch!

[@davidcarrillo7758]

If south is “up” ie the world turned upside down from that perspective it changes east and west. Look closely and Africa is upside down. At 4:11

[@fepatton]

Perhaps not. Remember, they’re talking about a South Pole landing, so here south is “up”. 😊

[@Dergoh44]

Yup that's it, north pole of the earth is facing down, it's a simulated view from the south pole of the moon !

[@BLD426]

Best of luck..

[@CAPTINKING]

imagine astronauts in 2028 like: lets tilt this back up and plug it in

[@akakakakakak3084]

Easy cakes in 70's, and now is attempting 💪

[@johnnyhollis9977]

I think the craft could do with a wider span on the landing legs in view of it's height. Any sideways movement will have an effect on the inertia when landing, making toppling that little bit more likely. However fingers crossed that this one nails it this time!

[@MattNolanCustom]

Do you think that the craft is uniformly dense?

[@johnnyhollis9977]

@@MattNolanCustom Well I would imagine that most of the weight is housed in the lower half at least. It will be interesting to see what upgrades they make in the 3rd rendition of the vehicle. 😉

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

Five bucks this one will tip over too.

[@MrSummitville]

I will be take that bet. I think, it lands up right.

[@r-saint]

Wish them luck

[@richspillman4191]

Never, they are a stupid company that makes bad equipment.

[@realmstupid-on8df]

Maybe they should try landing a ball so it can't possibly land sideways again.

[@nicosmind3]

Breaking a leg? That's very popular with actors

[@buntnik]

Would any lander designer put odds more in their favor by using a low center of gravity design?

[@rockerfromthebackstreets]

JUST ADMIT THE LAST ONE CRASHED

[@XAirForce]

I think my DNA goes to the Moon on this mission

[@riverakers]

I hope they double check the double checkers before the next attempt.

[@richspillman4191]

It is all cartoons and simulations.

[@EtzEchad]

Looks like something I built in KSP.

[@richspillman4191]

That's because it's only a cartoon.

[@selectthedead]

More for the algorithm! Would also love to hear more critique like this video or Boings Star liner! Especially with SpaceX. One does not see their wrong doings, but they are there. Like the Watertowers they did not reinforce.

[@MrPashto96]

the water towers that they were already removing?

[@alanmartin6708]

Are they going to launch on Space X rocket?

[@richspillman4191]

He only said so.

[@alanmartin6708]

@@richspillman4191 What do you mean?

[@UtahBlender]

Really cool mission purpose, but will it find, water?

[@richspillman4191]

Only if the simulation program says so.

[@UQRXD]

100 million, compared to wars small change.

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

Lets break the chain of landers landing sideways !

[@richspillman4191]

Let's build a lander the correct way and eliminate the possibility of falling over.

[@curtc4918]

You build a tall lander and are surprised that it tips over? Blame it on software!

[@ironspider9280]

Idk why ,but your voice sounds so sarcastic 😂😂😂 Great video though

[@richspillman4191]

Terrible video, nothing real about it.

[@agustinvelazques3748]

Hopefully this time they don't spend some of the budget on pizza parties, wait till you land successfully!

[@BRAHHHHHH]

Next lander it's too tall also. It's going to tip over like the first one.😂

[@jjthejetplane11]

The fact that this 'lander' and the company that built it haven't delivered on anything they promised yet is really telling. 'We promise to live stream the landing' (they didn't do it) 'we promise it will land safely' (they didn't do that either.) And the fact they were calling it a success for the nation and then didn't tell anyone it failed until the stock markets closed... this company made a poor example of a lunar impactor, which we could already do in the late 50s, and they called it a success... So. Many. Lies!

[@meesalikeu]

i was wondering where this was thx

[@manuwilson4695]

COME ON AMERICA! get your act together.

[@JacquesTreehorn]

I bet it lands on it's side again.

[@robbhahn8897]

Maybe the next one can do the trick of standing on its head😅

[@Ryan.Dias619]

Lunar circus competition 😂😅

[@UQRXD]

Earth spinning wrong direction I agree.

[@davidcarrillo7758]

From South Pole. Africa is going east since it is upside down

[@UQRXD]

@@davidcarrillo7758 Upside down.

[@LeonelLimon-nj7tu]

Can you please shoot the LZ with Harpoon first that will relay telemetry

[@LeonelLimon-nj7tu]

to lander or even connect to, like a sleeve.

[@LeonelLimon-nj7tu]

...oh, and fuck AI 😆

[@LeonelLimon-nj7tu]

Harpoon collect sample from penetration + drill apparatus

[@greggsteven1028]

make it short and squaty

[@fedorbutochnikow5312]

How does Intuitive Machines profit? Who pays them? Who needs data from the moon?

[@filonin2]

Scientists at various NGO's around the world. The Moon will be colonized and divided up for it's resources within our lifetimes and the planning needs to start now.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Did you ever learn how to do an online search? All of your answers are likely to be found there!! It is better for a person to learn how to fish than to expect that fish will just be given to him!! 😁

[@fedorbutochnikow5312]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 With all this schooling you gave me, you could have just answered my f*cking questions.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@fedorbutochnikow5312 Sounds like you would do almost anything to avoid looking up the answers yourself?! 🙄

[@fedorbutochnikow5312]

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 with an attitude like yours I sure do look up answers myself.

[@tanagra2]

Even to a child. You can see its top heavy with spindly legs. It was bound to fall over.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

No it's not bound to fall over. If the safety on the first flight has been properly disabled on the first flight then the laser range finder would likely have worked properly allowing for a safe landing. Instead the IM lander had to use an untested software system which resulted in the lander falling over primarily because it was still moving sideways as it approaches the surface.

[@MrRussvett]

how about NOT going down and forward at the same time 5 feet above landing "down only"

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

That can be resolved by using the tested landing system as intended instead of an untested software system.

[@woody5109]

Maybe they should just purchase a lander from China 😂

[@user-ut5iv7qt6u]

Only SpaceX could perform a successful landing.

[@filonin2]

Many already have and SpaceX has not so... no.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Space X has never landed any vehicle on the moon. 🙄

[@khankrum1]

Who IS IT the creates these headlines????? Machines " plural " ARE! not IS !

[@tepidtuna7450]

WTF? "Intuitive Machines" is the company name. "IS" is correct!

[@migs7220]

If Intuitive Machines was a band, maybe you would be pedantic. Intuitive Machines is a single entity. A company.

[@Helliconia54]

using the same heavily flawed lander for second mission? they must have money to throw away. It needs a MUCH wider stance. I hope the second lander falls over. Then maybe, just maybe, they'll take this seriously. So stupid.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

How many times did you succeed at a really difficult task the first time? Just because the IM-1 ended up on its side the first flight does not mean that the whole lander is flawed. The first failed because a safety switch for the Lazer system was not disabled ahead of time. Consequently, the Lazer land finder could not be used and an untested software landing system had to be used. The IM-2 has upgrades to correct this problem and we will see how it does. It's also amazing that this tiny aerospace company built this lander for the relatively low cost of 100 million. This company is persistent and consequently will do better the next try.

[@richspillman4191]

What a stupid design, anyone can see that it is top heavy.