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Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

ha, landed upside down but was still able to release spherical rovers that could even then take a picture of it.. thats so cool!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    afaik it flipped over at landing and the rovers where released about 5m above ground.
    Honestly pretty awesome it could automatically compensate against loosing almost 50% of thrust, stay perfectly on trajectory and land successfully.
    The Chinese lander, i think last year, didnt have compensation-features built-in and crashed.

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