• Ispace reveals why....

    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 28 08:48:27 2023
    but I can't find it. Misleading headlines are so annoying.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/japan-s-ispace-reveals-why-lunar-lander-likely-crashed-into-moon/ar-AA1anPz2

    My best guess is they ran out of gas a bit short of the landing....and crashed.

    ScottW

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Apr 28 10:29:34 2023
    On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 11:48:28 AM UTC-4, ScottW wrote:
    but I can't find it. Misleading headlines are so annoying.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/japan-s-ispace-reveals-why-lunar-lander-likely-crashed-into-moon/ar-AA1anPz2

    My best guess is they ran out of gas a bit short of the landing....and crashed.

    ScottW

    Let's go electric and build charging stations on the moon.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 28 11:21:53 2023
    Shmoos are in line to become the next great detective agency.

    but I can't find it. Misleading headlines are so annoying.

    Don't hold back. Blame it on George Soros, or China's "deep state", or
    even MTG's "Jewish space lasers".

    Bad things don't just happen. They're always engineered by someone
    Shmoos hate and fear.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Apr 28 16:23:20 2023
    On 4/28/23 10:48 AM, ScottW wrote:
    but I can't find it. Misleading headlines are so annoying.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/japan-s-ispace-reveals-why-lunar-lander-likely-crashed-into-moon/ar-AA1anPz2

    My best guess is they ran out of gas a bit short of the landing....and crashed.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01441-y

    “In the final touch down phase the telemetry showed that it was at zero altitude ... the lander thought it was on the lunar surface, but in
    reality it wasn’t,” says Ryo Ujiie, ispace’s chief technology officer. “The lander kept descending and then it ran out of propellant. After
    that, we observed some really unstable behaviour and an increase in velocity.”

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