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2019-09-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Space be Hard. Indian Moon mission crashes onto the moon.

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Posted by 3dc 2019-09-06 16:26|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2019-09-06 16:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Aagh ! $141 million accident.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-06 16:46|| 2019-09-06 16:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Lithobraking is the worst. I hope India keeps trying.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-09-06 16:47|| 2019-09-06 16:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-09-06 17:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Good to know. Thanks D66046.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-09-06 17:35|| 2019-09-06 17:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Blame it on poor lunar atmospheric conditions and soldier on.

Posted by jpal 2019-09-06 18:04|| 2019-09-06 18:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-09-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

#8 I heard the parachutes failed to work as expected.

Posted by gorb 2019-09-06 22:15|| 2019-09-06 22:15|| Front Page Top

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