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Wasn't able to get a link working but the SLIM lander seems to have unexpectedly survived lunar night.

It apparently may still be ejected just to see what shape the lander is in, so maybe we'll end up with a SLIM-like image

Unfortunately I'm reading an article which states the camera wasn't used, power priority was given to saving the lander when the rangefinders failed

Just showing some support for the brown dwarf's out there, someone's gotta stand up for the little guys you know?

Rough Landing, caught a rock and tipped over, currently lying on another rock, yikes.

Landing(?) Confirmed

They have a return signal of some kind

"Resolving a comms issue", Uh oh..

PDI should be wrapping up around now Pitch over seems to have begun Around 1 minute to touchdown Comms out, expected standby

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.

https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1760182646833893449

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