Private US Company lands spacecraft on moon
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Looks like it wasn't all that much of a 'soft landing' - the IM-1 caught one of it's legs on terrain during descent and as a result tipped over on it's side.
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It seems a lot of the payloads will still be receiving power though.
They wrongly stated that it had landed 'upright' due to erroneous readings from the fuel tanks.
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Depending on whether a majority of the payloads manage to achieve their scientific objectives, I'd still call this is a success - but if I were NASA, I'd consider moving some of the CLPS payloads onto Indian or Japanese landers as backup. They got both ISRO & JAXA to sign the Artemis accords, so might as well leverage their proven landers to some extent.
Intuitive Machines: Odysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'
The history-making robot likely caught its foot on contact with the lunar surface and fell sideways.
www.bbc.com
It seems a lot of the payloads will still be receiving power though.
They wrongly stated that it had landed 'upright' due to erroneous readings from the fuel tanks.
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Depending on whether a majority of the payloads manage to achieve their scientific objectives, I'd still call this is a success - but if I were NASA, I'd consider moving some of the CLPS payloads onto Indian or Japanese landers as backup. They got both ISRO & JAXA to sign the Artemis accords, so might as well leverage their proven landers to some extent.