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Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission (www.bbc.com)

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[–] DarylDutch 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They call it an "unprecedented pinpoint landing" but didn't take relative position to the sun into account? Still a great achiement and I am happy it is back online.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The position of the sun isn't really the problem. The problem is that one of its engines seems to have been damaged just before landing, so it landed precisely where it was supposed to, but tumbled over and is now more or less upside-down.

Still a noteworthy achievement, because it landed softly (which is a technical term meaning "didn't hit so hard it got crushed into a pancake", or more specifically "so hard it broke"). They'll have to work on whatever went wrong before landing though, so they can land right side up next time

[–] DarylDutch 1 points 11 months ago

Ty for the explanation, i was not aware of this.