  Ahead of the United States' crewed return to the moon in 2024, Intuitive
Machines, under a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, will land
their Nova-C lunar lander in October 2021. At 30 meters altitude during the
terminal descent, EagleCam will be deployed, and will capture and transmit the
first-ever third-person images of a spacecraft making an extraterrestrial
landing. This paper will focus on the structural design, modeling, and impact
analysis of a 1.5U CubeSat payload to withstand a ballistic, soft-touch landing
on the lunar surface.
