lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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bovigender pride flag, by @arina-artemis (click for more info)



aWildLupi
@aWildLupi

The Intuitive Machines moon lander will be attempting its moon landing today at 5:30 eastern, watch the coverage of it here, starting at 4pm!

Wish them luck, these CLPS and GLXP and really... basically every small moon lander in recent years has gone through a lotta hardship, a lot haven't made it to the moon, and those that did mostly crashed, so wish them luck to stick the landing! Landing on the moon is tough, after all.

That all said, this shot was a treat! I was worried it'd be way out of frame, but fortunately it was only a little bit.

I wish I'd had it at like f11 not f14, you really lose the boostback here, it was very faint.


lupi
@lupi

the landing time is now 5:24 PM rather than 5:30 because of some correction maneuvers they did, but the webcast still starts at 4pm even so!

These are always a fun time. funky lil robot tryin its best and its either gonna make it down to the moon okay or its not.

or its gonna do a secret third thing like JAXA's moon lander did last month and have one of the landing engines fail during descent, successfully land anyway, but the thing does a fuckin dodge roll on the lunar surface because with only one engine it couldn't zero out its horizontal speed perfectly and they still managed to have a somewhat successful surface campaign with it upside down

we don't know what this one's gonna do yet, but it hasn't been doomed by a propellant leak like Astrobotic's Peregrine lander was. It also hasn't caused a diplomatic incident with the Navajo Nation either, so we're really two points up on Astrobotic at the moment. Not that it's really a competition.



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