Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success"
Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success"
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...
ha, landed upside down but was still able to release spherical rovers that could even then take a picture of it.. thats so cool!
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.
Title: Let's all of us laugh at Japan's failure haha
Yeah, no.
Space is extremely unforgiving. The fact that the vessel is intact is a great success.
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?
Lol why is this getting down voted?
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.
Oh, OK. I thought people didn't like that it's an actual tech post. Yeah, article title could've been better.
The people have spoken and apparently they prefer Elon Musk news to actual tech news.
It's not because it's not Elon Musk. It's because the headline horribly misrepresents the situation.
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.
OK. You can downvote this as many times as you want to. You can kiss my happy butt goodbye. Enjoy your next story about Musk's bowel movement.
People don't like the article (and it's click bait headline). Not the subject itself, and not you.
Take a breath.
There are a ton of much better articles you could've posted instead of techspot. For example, Japan’s ‘moon sniper’ probe made incredibly accurate landing, but is now upside down. Plus, it was only upside-down because it rolled off a dune.
It's definitely the headline. The article is perfect for the community, though.