Private lunar lander from Japan falls silent while attempting a moon touchdown
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/private-lunar-lander-from-japan-descends-to-the-moons-surface-but-its-fate-is-unknown/
Private lunar lander from Japan falls silent while attempting a moon touchdown
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/private-lunar-lander-from-japan-descends-to-the-moons-surface-but-its-fate-is-unknown/
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That’s really disappointing to hear. Damn. I watched the stream but had to come to work, I was looking forward to some imagery later tonight. Maybe there’s still hope as long as it’s sitting on the surface, not in a million pieces.
[Early interpretation of signal suggests a high velocity freefall impact.](https://x.com/coastal8049/status/1930738395602735204)
We’ll have to wait and see if that is correct, but Hakuto-R M1 failed in a similar way.
Not a very good track record for commercial lunar companies on learning from their mistakes…
iSpace picked a good day to crash on the moon, this is the kind of bad news that’ll mostly end up buried by other stuff.
Strange how they couldn’t figure out some of the simplest technology – laser rangefinder.
Dang… Looks like the “Moon Curse” is starting to become a thing.
If only there was something like a light, that could beam down to measure distance for altitude requirements. Call it… LiDAR
Silly question: an impact like this would leave some sort of crater, even a small one? If it does, could it be visible from Earth?