Posted on 01/08/2024 12:49:06 PM PST by bitt
The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed to space Monday, but trouble seems to be already afoot.
The private lunar lander launched from the US this morning appears to have suffered an ‘anomaly’ – with experts trying to tackle the problem.
Peregrine Mission-1 – which took off on a new massive Vulcan rocket – aims to become the first US spacecraft to land on the moon’s surface since Apollo 17 in 1972; everything appeared to go well as it lifted off into space as planned.
Associated Press reported:
“But about seven hours after liftoff, Astrobotic Technology reported the solar panel on the lander wasn’t properly pointed toward the sun to generate and store power and it was investigating the issue.
The Pittsburgh company’s lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Florida predawn sky, putting the spacecraft on a roundabout route to the moon for a landing attempt on Feb. 23.”
We have liftoff! The first American commercial robotic launch to the Moon will deliver science instruments to study its surface, a critical part of preparing for future #Artemis missions. https://t.co/KoOZjXvqjD pic.twitter.com/Vo2Dnn6TwA
— NASA (@NASA) January 8, 2024
Astrobotic, who won a $108 million NASA contract, wants to be the first private company to land on the moon, but a Houston company will also send up a lander and could beat it to the lunar surface by taking a more direct path.
A moon-landing mission – a manned one, too – was launched in December 1972, when Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon.
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We can’t do things today that were accomplished in the 1960s.
With slide-rules, no less, to some extent.
The P51 Mustang went from sketch pad to mass production in less than six months. Today it would take eleven years based on industrial methods, regulations and requirements in 2023.
Once again, I RECOMMEND http://www.behindtheblack.com.
Robert Zimmerman is a great author, reporter, commentator, etc. The new lander is an experiment, a proof-of-concept for this company. Just like SpaceX and the Falcon 9. It failed until it did not. The return and reuse of the rockets did not work at first. The landings at sea definitely took a while to get it right. Now, SpaceX is like a regular airline, and sooo much less expensive than anything else. SpaceX is so reliable and inexpensive, Amazon has hired them!
Wonder if the ashes of Guy Williams in on the ship. He will truly be lost in space.
humm. what our best, brightest, and bravest people did in the 60’s and 70’s apparently isn’t that easy to duplicate with just robots. hope they can ‘work a solution’ with their robots from the ground.
That’s a good one!
The next American on the moon (if there is one) will be a scientist of Indian extraction working for the Chinese.
Looks like the Navajo council of medicine men and spirit wind talkers put a whammy on the mission.
Who is this “We”, Kemosabi?
Why did we even waste the tax dollars on a pointless mission to the moon from a restored shuttle? Just to show NASA is worth all that money?
Personally, I believe the USA should shift NASA into just a support organization for visionary space companies. How is it that Musk and his people envisioned and accomplished re-entry re-usable rockets that can even land on a floating platform in the ocean? Where were all the rocket engineers, astro-physics guys, and others at NASA that no one came up with such a cost effective and obviously workable concept.
We all know. NASA went woke. May be one of the reasons they can't get their lander solar panel to face the correct direction. What a shame, NASA was once the cutting edge of space exploration. Jeeze, we've been using Russian rockets to place our satellites for years.
Or a cover up and it is not what they say it is, and was not meant to actually go to the moon. Now it is in orbit around earth as a satellite as planned.
The US In Space! NASA Can Douche!
We can’t do things today that were done WITH COMPUTERS that were done with SLIDE RULES in the 1960’s!!
We have become more stupid,, leaving the thinking to machines.
(I would bet a dollar to a doughnut, that if you presented a slide rule and manual to any kid these days, they would turn to their whizbang phone, first, before asking you about it, to figure out this strange sliding piece of plastic!))
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