Peregrine lander: American Moon mission destroyed over Pacific Ocean

BBC ^ | 18th January 2024, 04:41 CST | By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent

[Red Badger]

A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific.

Peregrine One suffered a propulsion fault that scuppered any prospect of a lunar touch-down and it was commanded to destroy itself instead. The private operator, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, directed the craft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up. A tracking station in Canberra, Australia, confirmed loss of signal with Peregrine at 20:59 GMT.

Little or no remains of Peregrine were expected to survive intact to the ocean surface. And even if they did, they should have impacted far away from any population.

[Red Badger]

Perfect practice makes perfect.........

[TribalPrincess2U]

;-))))) I hate that screechy commercial! The worst of the worse!

[montanajoe]

Definitely screwed up that burial at sea thing...

[SaveFerris]

They made a new one

The original woman was better

“What ARE ‘the 3 P’s’?”

[The Louiswu]

Scuppered can be correct

Source, A Sea of Words, 3rd Edition by Dean King

[Red Badger]

It was more like a Viking funeral..............

[SaveFerris]

Partially-Programmed Paltry Peregrine Positively,
Painfully, Perilously, Painstakingly,
Powerfully, Properly Plunges Post-Ascent
Particularly Pleasant Pacific Ping!

[Magnum44]

I have said it before and I’ll say it again…,

Space….is hard.

[Red Badger]

It’s even harder when you’re stupid!................

[nhbob1]

This is what happens when 1+1=3

[Veto!]

Viking funeral for sure.

[Red Badger]

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[montanajoe]

Yeah that’s accurate lol

[know.your.why]

Gotta remember that this was the debut of the BE4 booster engine and it worked as advertised (as far as I know). Thats a huge deal for the future of Blue Origin and ULA.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Why couldn’t the army use it for target practice....Space Force.

[Red Badger]

Because once it’s blown apart you can’t control where the pieces land. So, it’s safer for everybody to let it burn up into the Pacific Ocean................

[MikelTackNailer]

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, directed the craft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.
Little or no remains of Peregrine were expected to survive intact to the ocean surface.

They'll find one thing:

[cgbg]

DeSantis held a press conference to congratulate the engineers and manufacturers on their “participation” in the space program.

Lol.

[SaveFerris]

Oops