I don’t need to check Firefly’s guidance system. The Athena team should check into that though, apparently this is their second similar failure.

Send them the email, not me, I’m just a nobody.

Also, our next lunar eclipse occurs in the next 6 days, how the fuck they expect that to work on solar power in the first place even if it did land correctly?

Nah, solar is the obvious choice in space near the sun, and by not borking it up by landing sideways in a crater on the south pole of the moon.

Very limited scope for solar power, it don’t work after landing sideways in a crater on the south pole.

Edit: By the way, our next lunar eclipse is in 6 days, do you really think that thing would go uninterrupted, even if it did land correctly?

It landed sideways like 250 meters away from the intended landing zone. Did you know the moon has way more craters than Earth?

Craters = Shadows

The thing ain’t got no sunlight yo, and its laying sideways in the shade, so no power…

Solar power? On the south pole of the moon?

That would just barely work on its own, even if the thing didn’t topple over.

As true as that is, they said that it cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, and the mission was only planned to last from 10 to 14 days or so. They could have used just a piece of a waste uranium rod or something as an alternate power source for such a short-lived mission.

I mean yeah, of course that would still add to the cost and complexity, and I don’t even know what all that would take, but hell if you’re already into the hundreds of millions of dollars range, you ought to consider redundancy and alternate power sources.

Well that’s a facepalm of a faceplant 😂

You’d almost think that by now they might have learned something from the Voyager 1 and 2 power systems and not relied completely on solar power…

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-rtg-radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator/