NASA orbiter spies Japan's struggling SLIM moon lander on lunar surface (image)

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of Japan's SLIM moon lander as it rests upside down on the lunar surface.

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[oldfart]

Can't believe they designed a probe that doesn't self right, and the rover doesn't have the energy to push it upright. Massive design fail

 

[Rob77]

Can't believe they designed a probe that doesn't self right, and the rover doesn't have the energy to push it upright. Massive design fail

Not so easy to design and test a probe in vacuum of space where we cant realistically test designs here on on Earth with gravity. Personally id like to see a probe able to be flown manually like a drone - there's about 3 seconds of latency I believe from here to the moon. If a probe is not orientating correctly or trajectory isn't quite right you would think it could be flown manually for a period. So many probes crashing into moon shows even computer driven trajectories are somewhat unreliable.

 

[billslugg]

The probe landed on its back because of a thruster failure. Making any probe self righting would be cost prohibitive. What we need is thrusters that don't die at the wrong moment.

 

[yaduff]

Can't believe they designed a probe that doesn't self right, and the rover doesn't have the energy to push it upright. Massive design fail

Agreed!

 

[yaduff]

But you might want to fix your name..........