Surprise! Japan’s SLIM Moon Lander Wakes Up After a Freezing Night

Universe Today ^ | 26 February 2024 | ALAN BOYLE

[Red Badger]

It lasted 20 episodes, one season.
Griffith played a salvage yard operator who tinkered with rockets and assembled a Moon ship out of old NASA scrap.

He had invented a new special rocket fuel, called ‘hydrothorazine’ that could propel him and his ship to the moon without exploding.

He would go up and bring back ‘abandoned’ space junk from the Moon.

Of course there were all kinds of legalities involved...............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1

[jdt1138]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1

I saw that show as a teen and really liked it but I think in this case that the SLIM lander had its power turned back on by the nazis that live at the secret WWII moon base.

[Red Badger]

Well, they could at least go out and stand it upright..................

[lurk]

, they could at least go out and stand it upright

The service company can send a guy to do that, for $10.83 per mile.

[niteowl]

That’s the second one in two weeks...probably lunar teenagers going out “probe tipping”.

[T.B. Yoits]

Looks like these “rocket scientists” aren’t so smart after all, and that includes those managing the one from Texas.

Yeah, you'd think one of the team had watched "Battlebots" or "Robowars" where even the kids know your robot needs the ability to right itself.

[montag813]

Looks like their photographer made it to the moon okay

[Clutch Martin]

“Why is it gold, and what is the gold material covering it?”

It’s mylar

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve been told it’s something called ‘Kapton’. Is that the same as Mylar?

[Clutch Martin]

“I’ve been told it’s something called ‘Kapton’. Is that the same as Mylar?”

“Kapton is a polyimide film produced from the condensation of pyromellitic dianhydride and oxydiphenylamine, which not only offers higher tensile strength and reliability than Mylar but has the ability to maintain its excellent physical, electrical, and mechanical properties over a wide temperature range.”
(WWW)

New and improved! Interesting.

[Fledermaus]

R2D2 fall down

[steve86]

I don’t know if it did. Sometimes landers / rovers have backup low bandwidth omnidirectional antennas that might have been used, slowly.

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm...
On a per capita useful byte cost basis, SLIM data may be cheaper than LHD data...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here's an interesting, concise and brief video about the use of Kapton Foil on Apollo 11. You can buy small pieces that flew to the moon on the Command Module and returned to earth.

The young lady narrating calls herself a "Space History Nerd" -- LOL. She's cute, personable, seems very knowledgable and is a great narrator with a good, tight script.

Kapton Foil Apollo 11

[jmcenanly]

Andy Griffith did a television series about that sort of thing in 1979. It was called Salvage One and it looked a little like what SpaceX is currently doing.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Best announcement of the series being cancelled came from Johnny Carson.

“Salvage 1, Audience nothing.”

[Jan_Sobieski]

Because of Murphy’s Law, True Engineering is having 100 failures until you work out the kinks. And even then you have failures. It’s not surprising that this Lunar Lander tipped over. It’s Part of the engineering process. Always be leery when engineers say they got something to work first time…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xciCJfbTvE4

[Fungi]

Could you?