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Post by Meseia on Apr 25, 2023 17:18:06 GMT
It was expected to lose contact during descent to the lunar surface. Communication was reestablished a few seconds before touchdown and then contact was lost and hasn't been reestablished. The Japanese mission commander said they will continue trying but the ground crew were looking very sad. The lander was unmanned.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2023 21:38:05 GMT
Pity.
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Post by Meseia on Apr 26, 2023 4:27:18 GMT
Yeah I was excited for it some cool pics of a lunar rover running around, doing whatever. This was the last image before it lost communication.  |
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Post by Meseia on Apr 27, 2023 5:16:51 GMT
According to some well-spoken man from Kennedy Space Center, whose name I didn't catch, the lander began accelerating during the landing maneuver. He said it basically ran out of gas and just dropped. The amount of damage is still unknown. Some engineer didn't double check his math. Ouch. Big flub up. Rockets are among the hardest science but this is kind of embarrassing to just run out of gas. Generally, engineers love to give a 15-20% margin of error so they had to be cutting it close. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out an administrator overrode the engineers.
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