India to attempt landing at the Lunar South Pole:
https://www.space.com/india-chandray...n=20190906-sdc
Still as of thie writing about 3+1/2 hours from now, you can watch it live, at the above link, if you get this in time.
Today's Space News
India to attempt landing at the Lunar South Pole:
https://www.space.com/india-chandray...n=20190906-sdc
Still as of thie writing about 3+1/2 hours from now, you can watch it live, at the above link, if you get this in time.
Watch Iron Sky to see what will happen...
Voilą le soleil d'Austerlitz!
. . . we will be watching for cylinders in the background . . .
Looks like they didn't make it . . . .
Did they crash or miss the moon completely?Originally Posted by clipper1801
They do not know what happened to the lander. Contact was lost when it was 2.1 km above the surface of the Moon. The Lunar Orbiter part of the mission is still functioning.
Martians or Space Nazis!
Voilą le soleil d'Austerlitz!
Crashing down on the Moon surface should reflect with a bell-like sound (like NASA recorded it in sixties). The Moon is a hollow metal structure brought in our orbit eons of time ago.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Turns out, making a landing on the moon is hard. I was on my way to a s/f group meeting , so I didn't find out until much later: but David's report was accurate as of then. Going to poke around, see if there's any mroe information this morning.
OK, still no word on why the lander crashed, but the Chandrayaan orbiter is still functioning at 100%, and the overall mission is still ongoing:
https://www.space.com/india-moon-mis...drayaan-2.html
The orbiter should be able to see the black smoke cloud from that distance . . .
As I found out with many hours and quarters in college
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_...79_video_game)
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
The Israelis had something similar happen in April: they got their Beresheet lander to within just a few KM of the surface, and then lost control and crashed.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/echoin...roach-to-moon/
The latest update:
https://www.space.com/india-moon-lan...2-orbiter.html
or, the TL;DR version:
Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has spotted Vikram lander on the moon;
communications not yet established
efforts to do so will continue for another 14 days.
Indeed: yeah, it's not necessarily the flight, it's the landing.
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