▲ 18 ▼ Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" (www.techspot.com) submitted 2 years ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Lol why is this getting down voted? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] shakcked@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It's a terrible headline that completely downplays a successful mission. Instead of focusing on the fact that they achieved a landing accuracy of 55m where previous missions measured in kilometres they went for a cheap joke. This is in spite of having a thruster fail that resulted in the lander tipping over but still able to deploy is rover. The same article from a better website would have probably faired better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun). The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement. If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Oh, OK. I thought people didn't like that it's an actual tech post. Yeah, article title could've been better. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shakcked@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago* (2 children) It's a terrible headline that completely downplays a successful mission. Instead of focusing on the fact that they achieved a landing accuracy of 55m where previous missions measured in kilometres they went for a cheap joke. This is in spite of having a thruster fail that resulted in the lander tipping over but still able to deploy is rover. The same article from a better website would have probably faired better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun). The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement. If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Oh, OK. I thought people didn't like that it's an actual tech post. Yeah, article title could've been better. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun). The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement. If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago Oh, OK. I thought people didn't like that it's an actual tech post. Yeah, article title could've been better. permalink fedilink source parent