I’d like to share a design concept with IM given that this is their second moon topple:
Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
Submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, you’re not wrong. A low center of mass is legitimately a good idea.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down!
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 month ago
The first one fell over and sank into the ~~swamp ~~ crater.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sooooo we built another one
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 month 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.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Breaking news, space is really really hard
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
It’s not space that’s hard. Its more the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that’s hard.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like when you run into me bc I’m hard 4 u bb. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
A hard void.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month 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…
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
When one day we get people back on the moon, is there a chance these devices could be brought back online?
gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More likely salvaged as part of a permanent moon base.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
x00z@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brought back*
No need for this trash on the moon, even if it works.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 month 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.
tonytins@pawb.social 1 month ago
He’s dead, Jim.
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Athena (goddess of wisdom and war, strange combo).
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Company that topled a mooncraft… topled another mooncraft.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Landing a fridge on those spindly little legs did seem a bit… optimistic…
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And he’s so full of hot air he doesn’t even need a suit.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He would try to smoke the moon regolith and come up with some rad ideas. Occupy Moon! Yeeeeaah
marshadow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Had me in the first half, ngl
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haha, that was the idea 🤣