Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade::undefined
Then again, it might NOT be the space photo of the decade.
So you’re saying it’s a 50/50 chance, eh?
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Let’s hope the best pictures come from Artemis later this decade.
The company [that helped build the rover] is perhaps most famous for originally creating the Transformers, the alien robots that can disguise themselves as machines
So, Transformers on moon confirmed.
Starscream still seems to be learning how to fly /s
I’m surprised they didn’t blame the crash on the Decepticons!
… actually it was caused by one of the engines falling off! (or the nossle anyway)
Doh! Well, at least next time they’ll know they should design it so that the engines don’t fall off. Maybe add some tape and push it harder against the frame for a few seconds so it knows it’s meant to remain there.
Kids these days not playing enough Lunar Lander
Furthermore, there are no GPS systems on the moon to help guide a craft to its landing spot.
The fact that this line is in the article just reminds me how
dumbtech illiterate most people are.This is very much the bell curve meme, but those in the know would be aware that the US military had been working on it for a while now.
https://www.nga.mil/news/NGA_Leads_Development_of_Navigational_Reference_Sy.html
I’m willing to let that one pass just because it’s something people have gotten so used to here that it’s likely taken for granted by many. I’m guessing that line got far more, “oh right, duh” reactions than, “wait what!?” ones.
Ah, I can see Toy Poodle from this angle!
So at this point, we’ve been there in person. We fully understand the atmosphere, the gravity, and the topology. We have laser range finding, lidar, stereoscopic vision. Trajectory and velocity are both more or less solved problems by this point, right?.. Right? There’s only 2.7 seconds of light delay. How have we screwed up so many landings?
… because it’s literally rocket science?
I’m not saying it’s easy, or that I could do better, but multi national attempts, how many billions of dollars, surely we have to have enough tech to do this with proper fail safes by now.
I can’t find much detailing what went wrong, but the main points seem to be that they achieve most accurate landing ever, and were still able to deploy the baseball robot things, which sounds like a win to me.
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