Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt
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#2We were watching live and the control room went from completely excited to somber in about a one second period. Space is hard.
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#3Three failed commercial landers now. Are the moon Nazis shooting them down on approach? /s
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#4We were watching live and the control room went from completely excited to somber in about a one second period. Space is hard.
Did they have L/S-band telemetry right up until the last seconds?
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#5We were watching live and the control room went from completely excited to somber in about a one second period. Space is hard.
Did they have L/S-band telemetry right up until the last seconds?
not sure what these bands are but the simulation stopped getting live data quite a few seconds before planned touchdown.
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#6Beautiful images of Earth from the lander: https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227/ph... and
https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1649707714447306753/ph...
Re: Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt
#7Beautiful images of Earth from the lander: https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227/ph... and https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1649707714447306753/ph...
Obligatory Sagan quote:
> Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Re: Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt
#8Beautiful images of Earth from the lander: https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227/ph... and https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1649707714447306753/ph...
If you look carefully at Earth, as the image was taken during the eclipse, you see the shadow of the Moon on Earth.
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#9because it was plasma?
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#10It was heartbreaking to see the control room during the first few minutes after the landing.
Imagine a project you've worked on for years going kaput and you won't even know why. None of these engineers will find sleep tonight.
I hope some moon orbiter can take pics of the landing site soon.