I wonder if the Chinese will have better luck.
Space Ping!.........................
Bkmk
Well if China says so it must be true.
“DRO-A” and “DRO-B”?
How boring! What happened to the cool Chinese names like “Seven Happiness Lunar Mission” or “Five Stars Happiness Orbiter” or “Golden Joy Exploration”?
It’s bizarre how much can be done from such a great distance. My son worked with a solar observatory satellite at NASA. It had a scheduled mission life of two years. Sometime around year ten a gyro failed and they lost contact with it. The gyro failure pointed the solar panel away from the sun. Several years later the satellite had gained enough passive energy to reconnect with earth and they actually regained control of it. As far as I know, it’s still operational.
"...but the third-stage malfunction occurred due to an issue with the Yuanzheng-1S upper stage..."
That's like saying 'the car malfunctioned due to an issue with the car.'
The word 'slingshot' was used 6 times.
At another point, the writer talked about the slingshot, saying they "use[d] the gravity of Earth, the Moon, and the Sun as a substitute for energy" and later repeated that with the phrase "used gravity assists from multiple celestial bodies".
It's a nice story, but should have been written using half the words expended.
I wonder if the Chinese will have better luck.
Sometimes ya just gotta screw up to see what skills ya have.
ah...they been watchin too many star trek episodes
Slingshot Around The Sun For Saturn
https://whatculture.com/trekculture/10-star-trek-timelines-that-were-erased?page=9
My great grandfather, Sir Isaac Biden invented gravity, no joke man.
Good save.