dv said:
Japanese lander SLIM appears to have landed on its nose but it managed to deploy the Lev-2 rover (which took this picture).Lev-1, the hopping rover, has done six hops. Despite the out-of-spec landing of the main craft, the mission is proceeding
successfully.https://www.space.com/japan-slim-moon-lander-photo-lunar-surface
Thanks, Car. Best to memory-hole that previous scandal.
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Japanese lander SLIM appears to have landed on its nose but it managed to deploy the Lev-2 rover (which took this picture).Lev-1, the hopping rover, has done six hops. Despite the out-of-spec landing of the main craft, the mission is proceeding
successfully.https://www.space.com/japan-slim-moon-lander-photo-lunar-surface
A successful landing upside down. I love it.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
Japanese lander SLIM appears to have landed on its nose but it managed to deploy the Lev-2 rover (which took this picture).Lev-1, the hopping rover, has done six hops. Despite the out-of-spec landing of the main craft, the mission is proceeding
successfully.https://www.space.com/japan-slim-moon-lander-photo-lunar-surface
A successful landing upside down. I love it.
Japan have had some wins with their space program but somehow they always go not quite right. Hayabusa was the first successful asteroid sample return mission but the sampling procedure didn’t go right so they only got a very small amount of dust. Akatsuki successfully entered orbit around Venus but they had to use a much higher orbit with a 10 day period rather than the 1 day period planned.
This time, sure we landed upside down but the robots deployed okay so call it a win.
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
A successful landing upside down. I love it.
Japan have had some wins with their space program but somehow they always go not quite right. Hayabusa was the first successful asteroid sample return mission but the sampling procedure didn’t go right so they only got a very small amount of dust. Akatsuki successfully entered orbit around Venus but they had to use a much higher orbit with a 10 day period rather than the 1 day period planned.
This time, sure we landed upside down but the robots deployed okay so call it a win.
They could get the hopper to jump up and down on it a few times and see if it rolls back over.
Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations, the country’s space agency said on Monday, indicating that power had been restored after it was left upside down during a slightly haphazard landing.
The probe, nicknamed the “moon sniper”, had tumbled down a crater slope during its landing on 20 January, leaving its solar batteries facing in the wrong direction and unable to generate electricity.
Jaxa, Japan’s space agency, prioritised transmitting landing data before the battery ran out on the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim), but said there was a chance the probe would be able to recharge once the west side of the moon starts receiving sunlight in the coming days.
“Last evening we succeeded in establishing communication with Slim, and resumed operations,” Jaxa said on Monday. “We immediately started scientific observations with MBC , and have successfully obtained first light for 10-band observation,” it said, referring to the lander’s spectroscopic camera….