Posted on 09/06/2019 9:53:34 AM PDT by libh8er
Have been watching this in hopes of their success, but seems it’s been way to quiet for too long ?
Lost com at 2.5 km. Data being analyzed.
too x2 .. duhh
Just heard one of the console guys confirm that they’ve lost comms with the lander . . .
2.1 km altitude ... then data was lost to the ground station ...
Unfortunate, if the landing was not successful. I hope they try again and soon.
From the looks of confusion and “milling about smartly,” It would appear that they did not have any contingency plans / pre-planned responses in place to deal with failures. The “what if” drills used to develop those plans may have helped to prevent this.
Everyone else notice that the tracking graph showed the laner veering significantly from the projected track at about 1/2 -1 km ?
“Say ‘Hi’ to Alice Kramden for me.”
I watched the youtube feed, once they went into fine braking the actual path deviated from the projection. Based on what I was seeing on the monitors, it was lower than it supposed to be and traveling horizontally faster than it should have been at the point when the data feed was lost. My guess is it got too low too quickly, and plowed horizontally into the side of a hill at half a football field per second.
Yup. Better luck next time, crew.
damn > laner s/b lander, of course
re: “Everyone else notice that the tracking graph showed the laner veering significantly from the projected track at about 1/2 -1 km ?”
Yeah ... I don’t know what to make of that exactly.
Prime Minister’s leaving .. the mission must be hosed for sure.
Climate Change.............
Lost comms 2.1 km from surface. Hellava time for that to fail and probably more catastrophic than just the comms failing. But, no clue right now
Re Prime Minister on his way out > hope he’s telling those space quiz kids that sometimes you crash, but ya gotta keep tryin’
We do not choose to go to the moon because it is easy,
but because it is hard...
They at least have a lunar orbiter for a year.
Go India. We salute your effort!!!
Roger that
FWIW the lander was on a completely automated cycle with no input from mission control. If they lost comms, its something that went wrong on the machine, not a controller error.
Someday lunar tourists will visit the crash site...
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