Minmus Taster

Less than a minute to PDI Ignition

Mainly curious about the atmospheric pressure, could a human survive in the denser atmosphere assuming they had a suit that would keep them warm? Or would they be crushed? Also curious about the the temperature, water collection, and different options for habitats.

My brother told about a man with the last name 'French' was being executed via electric chair (not sure what he did). When asked if he had any last words he said something along the lines of "OH what will the papers say tomorrow? French fries?". He probably had that one stewing ever since he got the sentence

Floor 4561: It's painted exactly like the top of a skyscraper. The false sky causes a brief rush of adrenaline to your tired body. Only for you to see the next set of stairs piercing one of the painted clouds.

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Already? Are they even entering orbit first?

Link please? New Horizons isn't arriving at the Heliopause for many years, probably the 2040's? The main issue with those kinds of missions are power and duration. There is a painful shortage of RTG's right now (I believe New Horizons used a spare Cassini generator) and it's hard to get funding for a mission that's going to last longer then a politicians time in office, let alone something that they may not actually get to see begin in their lifetimes. That's assuming that New Horizons will still be operating when it gets there, not sure if the generator it has is going to be good that long.

Over the past few months the situation on the probe has gotten progressively worse. A glitch in one of the main processors of the craft prevent it from sending coherent telemetry back to earth. It can still recieve commands and execute them, it just can't communicate with us properly. Unfortunately since no good telemetry is coming through its nearly impossible to even diagnose what the problem even is, let alone if theres a work around. Many members of the current team running it don't seem to have much optimism in solving the issue. The current plan is to try and switch the computer to a mode that was used while it was preforming a flyby to try and at least isolate the problem. What do you reckon the odds of success are and could the probe have any use if it's science mission is ended by the issue?

So is it actually dead or just incapable of flight? It was talked about previously that it was communicating with ground control, did they shut it off?

Looks like one of the main engines broke apart at around 50 meters, one of the nozzles was caught in a navigation image falling away. It's really a miracle it landed at all, and it made it well within the 100 meter target area, JAXA should be proud of their work here.

Something that's been bugging me is why can't they just use the thrusters to push it over? It doesn't look like it's embedded too deep.

Most of the crashes are coming from inexperienced private companies making their moonshots, the only government space agency's loss that comes to mind is Chandrayaan-2 which was a first attempt that nearly worked. SLIM is also a first attempt from JAXA and it even made it to the surface, impressive given it's ambitious design. Expect more crashes in the future before things start to work, think back to landing Falcon 9 but a half-million miles away and more expensive. That all being said I'm very worried about VIPER given the track record of private companies, I believe the same company that did Peregrine is working on that lander. Hopefully they learn some things from it, losing VIPER would be very sad.

Battery is set to run out in several hours

Confirmed: it's landed and is receiving commands. Solar panels aren't receiving power. LEV-1 is working as expected. LEV- 2 isn't responding.

Conference begins at 2:10 JST

If it was on it's side as planned than this wouldn't have happened. It seems it landed and is transmitting data but is in some sort of abnormal position.

Given its odd orientation on the map maybe it could have hit a Boulder? ITS ALIVE! Someone just spoke something on the broadcast in Japanese, does anyone know what he said? LEV-1 also seems to be operating

With Peregrine just having been destroyed that's possibly two landers gone in a day. Rough times for lunar exploration.

Possible tumble? This doesn't look great Is it still sending telemetry? It doesn't seem to have suffered a tank rupture. Unless the screen froze when it made contact. Program ending, they're waiting for the press conference. This doesn't bode well for the probe.

Getting a little low on fuel.. Final descent has begun 500 meters, hovering 50 meters, hovering Attempting touchdown. CONTACT Telemetry indicates landing

Why do they always need to draw them as cute cartoons. It makes me feel worse when something goes wrong

I had no idea this thing existed until now. Looks like an overbuilt satellite launcher in kerbal.

Silly question but I didn't follow the launch very closely; by 'translunar' do they mean an immediate transfer or the gradual approach that takes months?