Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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#2> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.
Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
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#4If at first, you fail, try and try again. This was sobering. I watched expecting the normal rush I get when watching live events of this nature but it was not to be.
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#5> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
Gotta be a terrible "oh man we're back up---- nope" moment :(
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#6Still a great achievement! An inspiration for all kids looking to do science.
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#7> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
When is it not a terrible time to have an engine failure?
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#8So: first attempt to get to the moon (by them, who are not quite USA or China) and they just fail at the very end.
Like getting a silver medal at the Olympics. Yes, sad. But man!
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#9Discussion prior to the outcome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634570.
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#10> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
When is it not a terrible time to have an engine failure?
When you're floating along on a stable orbit not about to impact the surface.
Or with more time to recover from the outage before landing. If it happens within the last minute (wild estimation) then you have little time to recover the lost velocity.