The SLIM was a joint effort between Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sony, and Doshisha University to design a craft capable of...
afaik it flipped over at landing and the rovers where released about 5m above ground.
Honestly pretty awesome it could automatically compensate against loosing almost 50% of thrust, stay perfectly on trajectory and land successfully.
The Chinese lander, i think last year, didnt have compensation-features built-in and crashed.
They landed in the 100 square meter target area, free of obstructions, autonomously, and released experimental rovers. It IS a success. Why doesnt the great techspot.com land a craft on the moon if it's so fucking easy?
It's a terrible headline that completely downplays a successful mission. Instead of focusing on the fact that they achieved a landing accuracy of 55m where previous missions measured in kilometres they went for a cheap joke. This is in spite of having a thruster fail that resulted in the lander tipping over but still able to deploy is rover. The same article from a better website would have probably faired better.
It's also worth noting it was always supposed to land with the solar panels on its side, the issue is that they ended up pointing west (in the shade, not producing power) instead of to the east (towards the sun).
The fact that it still handled the asymmetrical thrust after the nozzle broke off one of its two engines to make it down in one piece, and only the orientation happened to be wrong, is still a great achievement.
If the hardware survives the chill (heaters not running from lack of power) it might still resume its mission when the sun changes position in the sky and the panels start getting light.
Lol "I don't like this man that influences technology so I don't want to see it in a technology sub, and no one else should either!!" I see this alllll the time on here and its cringe as fuck. I don't like the Chinese government either but I'm not going to whine and cover my ears and eyes everytime they do something technology related and beg everyone to just ignore anything the do to affect said technology. Its so childish and stupid.
I'll not take the time to submit tech news to people that bury that news because they read something into a headline I didn't create. I don't need a breath. I need to stay away from such people. We'll both be better off.
Originally this post was well past double figures downvotes. That puts it beneath a threshold to be displayed on any page. Why would a person spend the time to submit something no one would see?