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The phones went out for much of the world today after a long week of news concerning a national security threat about potential Russian Space Nukes and ‘indiscriminate’ satellite weapons raising tensions all week between Washington and Moscow.
At the same time NASA accounced a X6.3 magnitude solar flare while communications networks accross the world have gone offline causung all sorts of panic about supposed 'hackers'.
Meanwhile in Houston, Intuitive Machines is troubleshooting communications failure for today's lunar lander mission after going dark after touchdown. Lunar landing missions typically offer moments of uncertainty. And though we're waiting for confirmation of communications, there have been some promising updates:
"We have an onboard fault detection system for our communications that after 15 minutes with lack of communication will power cycle the radios and then after that for another 15 minutes it will then switch antenna pairs, so we have some time here to evaluate," an Intuitive Machines flight controller said on the stream.
"We're not dead yet," they emphasized.
The company has also confirmed a "faint signal" - potentially representing signs of life from the spacecraft.
3 окт 2024
