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2024-02-25 Science & Technology

One giant tumble for mankind! NASA confirms $118 million Odysseus lunar aircraft has TIPPED OVER onto its side after failed landing on the moon

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Wait! There's rocks on the moon?
Big enough to upset the unit's center-of-gravity?
Where there's no gravity?

What balloon head did they outsource the landing dynamics modeling to?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11164 views ] Top

#1 Are we worse at Moon landings than 50 years ago?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-24 10:19|| 2024-02-24 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The system that was supposed to handle the sensing of the terrain during the landing failed prior to insertion. They had to re=task lidar sensors that weren't intended for the task while in orbit around the moon. They almost pulled it off.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-24 11:15|| 2024-02-24 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Play Lunar Lander

Wiki says:
Lunar Lander (video game genre)

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-25 06:08|| 2024-02-25 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 iirc the Armstrong mission had to make a last second adjustment of their landing to avoid a boulder.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-25 07:41|| 2024-02-25 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 the Armstrong mission had to make a last second adjustment

Indeed. At the time, there was a faction arguing that we should send robots instead of humans. But humans make pretty good general purpose robots despite being soft and squishy, which allows them to do tricks like dodging last-minute boulders. Our robotic systems are better now, but all the parts still have to work.

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-25 11:03|| 2024-02-25 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Your tax dollars at work.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-25 11:09|| 2024-02-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 but all the parts still have to work

And had the landing carriage been twice the diameter, it would not have fallen.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-25 11:20|| 2024-02-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, why the tall skinny probes..instead of fat squat ones?

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-02-25 15:20|| 2024-02-25 15:20|| Front Page Top

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