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| Space be Hard. Indian Moon mission crashes onto the moon. |
| 2019-09-06 |
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 I heard the parachutes failed to work as expected. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-09-06 22:15 |
| #7 At least it landed. It could have hurtled off into the infinite reaches of outer space. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2019-09-06 19:28 |
| #6 Blame it on poor lunar atmospheric conditions and soldier on. |
| Posted by: jpal 2019-09-06 18:04 |
| #5 Good to know. Thanks D66046. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2019-09-06 17:35 |
| #4 The original plan was to descend to 18km off the surface, adjust for momentum and land. They revised the plan to include orbiting around the moon at a height under 100 km, to make system checks or something. The lander had to be reconfigured and a fifth liquid engine (7kg) added plus the software changes. They made these additions in june last year, so pretty late in the project. I think they just got ahead of themselves a little. There's another one already in the works, this time with Japan. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-06 17:09 |
| #3 Lithobraking is the worst. I hope India keeps trying. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2019-09-06 16:47 |
| #2 Aagh ! $141 million accident. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-06 16:46 |
| #1 ISRO has lost contact with the Vikram lander. It's last telemetry showed it going very fast at a low altitude - not a good mix. Spaceflight is hard! All that matters is that they learn and improve future designs |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-06 16:38 |