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Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" (www.techspot.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 35 points 9 months ago

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

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Title: Let's all of us laugh at Japan's failure haha

Yeah, no.

Space is extremely unforgiving. The fact that the vessel is intact is a great success.

[–] Chaser@sopuli.xyz 23 points 9 months ago

They landed in the 100 square meter target area, free of obstructions, autonomously, and released experimental rovers. It IS a success. Why doesnt the great techspot.com land a craft on the moon if it's so fucking easy?

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol why is this getting down voted?

[–] shakcked@lemm.ee 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's a terrible headline that completely downplays a successful mission. Instead of focusing on the fact that they achieved a landing accuracy of 55m where previous missions measured in kilometres they went for a cheap joke. This is in spite of having a thruster fail that resulted in the lander tipping over but still able to deploy is rover. The same article from a better website would have probably faired better.

[–] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun).

The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement.

If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

Oh, OK. I thought people didn't like that it's an actual tech post. Yeah, article title could've been better.