Talk:EagleCam

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How can the sentences "Once ejected, the EagleCam semi-land on the lunar surface somewhere near the lander at 10 m/s (33 ft/s). From the surface the EagleCam attempted to capture the first third-person images of a lunar landing, but images are yet to arrive.", describing the recent landing, have a citation dating back to the beginning of the month?? 47.64.164.88 (talk) 18:33, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a student of ERAU (though not on the EagleCam team), I will refrain from editing this article, though I will add a failed verification tag to the sentence in question. Upon reviewing the edit history, I see that the source was added on February 15 to cite the sentence "From the surface the EagleCam will attempt to capture the first third-person images of a lunar landing." The sentence has since been edited after the landing, but no new source has been provided. - ZLEA _T\^C 19:03, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; meanwhile the article has been updated and clarified 47.64.164.88 (talk) 10:01, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm adding some more academic papers / secondary sources to boost this article's verifiability.

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10115622 (IEEE Paper on EagleCam published by its creators)
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01398

Local News Reports

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NLrUEHk50
• https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/space/2024/02/21/embry-riddle-aeronautical-university-eaglecam
  • Used in article SpacePod9 (talk) 03:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/education/campus/2024/02/22/1st-u-s-moon-landing-in-50-years-will-inclu-today-intuitive-machines-odysseus-has-erau-camera-aboard/72699182007/
  • Used in article SpacePod9 (talk) 03:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2024/02/13/embry-riddle-students-built-history-making-camera-bound-for-the-moon/72456202007/
• https://news.fit.edu/engineering/florida-tech-professor-part-of-team-behind-key-lunar-lander-payload/
• https://brevardsun.com/stories/639306529-eagles-visit-intuitive-machines-to-make-final-preparations-on-eaglecam-cubesat
  • This source is just a copy of this press release from the school: https://news.erau.edu/headlines/eagles-visit-intuitive-machines-to-make-final-preparations-on-eaglecam-cubesat
• https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/press-release/21159419/embry-riddle-aeronautical-university-eagles-to-land-first-student-project-on-moon-to-snap-selfie-of-lunar-landing
  • This is source is also just a repost of an ERAU press release (https://news.erau.edu/headlines/eagles-to-land-first-student-project-on-moon-snap-selfie-of-lunar-landing)

• https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/eaglecam.htm (Gunter's Space Page, a tertiary source but its a very common citation amongst CubeSat articles on Wikipedia)
  • The only thing potentially citeable here is the COSPAR ID, which isn't even right since that's the tentative one given to IM-1 as a whole. It probably belongs as an external link for tradition.

• https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230015144/downloads/SwampWorks_2023_ASCEND_v2.pdf

SpacePod9 (talk) 22:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NASA Press Conference on the 28th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2n2-_hLPM EagleCam mentioned at 1:12:35) SpacePod9 (talk) 22:13, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, on a few of the university / news pages they mention that Steve Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, talked at the school and "challenged" the students of the lab to design a CubeSat to take a "space selfie" of the IM-1 lander, which would later become EagleCam. I believe [this] is the only public talk Altemus gave to the public at ERAU, and it was at the right time, but through skimming the video I couldn't find any mention of him "challenging" the student body, so he might've just challenged the lab privately. The video needs a more thorough watching though to figure that out. SpacePod9 (talk) 03:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]