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Forum:	Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic:	[Discuss] Intuitive Machines' IM-1 moon mission

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SkyMan1958: [b]Do we have any idea of what caused the toppling?[/b][/QUOTE] More analysis is needed to confirm, but one of the scenarios Intuitive Machines is considering was described by CEO Steve Altemus as follows: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We came down a little bit faster [than planned]. We were supposed to come down at one meter per second, which is about two miles an hour. And we were supposed to null the lateral velocity, which was supposed to be zero when we were coming straight down. [Instead] we had about two miles an hour [lateral velocity]. And so if it was coming down at six miles an hour, as we think, and moving two miles an hour and it caught a foot, it might have fractured that landing gear and came [tipped] over gently.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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