Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think the only one that can solve all of their problems is elon. He would fix it in few weeks. Include him in next launch, he will troubleshoot directly on the Moon. Please, someone, send that asshole to space.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And he’s so full of hot air he doesn’t even need a suit.

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He would try to smoke the moon regolith and come up with some rad ideas. Occupy Moon! Yeeeeaah

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  • marshadow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Had me in the first half, ngl

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Haha, that was the idea 🤣

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d like to share a design concept with IM given that this is their second moon topple:

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, you’re not wrong. A low center of mass is legitimately a good idea.

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• Uniquitous@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The first one fell over and sank into the ~~swamp ~~ crater.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sooooo we built another one

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    • Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sank into a crater. So we built a third one. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into a crater. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest spacecraft on all of the Moon.

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• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Breaking news, space is really really hard

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  • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not space that’s hard. Its more the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that’s hard.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like when you run into me bc I’m hard 4 u bb. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A hard void.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well that’s a facepalm of a faceplant 😂

  You’d almost think that by now they might have learned something from the Voyager 1 and 2 power systems and not relied completely on solar power…

  allaboutcircuits.com/…/voyager-mission-anniversar…

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eh… I think they should stick to solar power. Given how much trouble they’ve been having, let’s not give them any weapons grade isotopes…

    For what it’s worth, just last week, Firefly stuck the landIng on their first attempt. They’re seriously killing it these days, I’m happy for them.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Solar power? On the south pole of the moon?

      That would just barely work on its own, even if the thing didn’t topple over.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When one day we get people back on the moon, is there a chance these devices could be brought back online?

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  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More likely salvaged as part of a permanent moon base.

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This was a plot point in The Martian which was pretty neat. There was also an episode of Futurama which was also neat

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Brought back*

    No need for this trash on the moon, even if it works.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, if we have boots on the moon, at that point we don’t need probes like these. At that point you just drop a sensor, or whatever experiment you want directly on the surface.

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    • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was looking at it from the perspective of all the failed probes we’ve sent and whether or not the lost costs/missions could be recouped or completed somehow.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Athena (goddess of wisdom and war, strange combo).

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  • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why?

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There is no wisdom in war.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Company that topled a mooncraft… topled another mooncraft.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He’s dead, Jim.

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Landing a fridge on those spindly little legs did seem a bit… optimistic…

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I really don’t understand the tall moon lander strategy… I mean, if you’re going to design it with a high center of gravity, then design it to fall over… Just use two landing legs instead of four, to ensure it falls over on the correct side. Then you put the solar panels on the side, so that when it topples over they’re facing up.

    I’ve literally done this in Kerbal space program, it’s a pretty reliable landing system if your probe is tall.

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