NEW UPDATE! What exactly happened to NASA Astrobotic’s lunar lander? HOW SpaceX to save…
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NEW UPDATE! What exactly happened to NASA Astrobotic’s lunar lander? HOW SpaceX to save…
The situation is quite dire!
Yesterday morning, the new Vulcan rocket made a smashing debut, launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and performing flawlessly. After 50 minutes of flight, the rocket’s upper stage deployed its primary payload—the Peregrine lunar lander—into a Moon-bound trajectory. United Launch Alliance declared complete success with its new rocket and Peregrine became the first American commercial lunar lander to launch on a Mission to the Moon.
This success of ULA and NASA has received much praise!
”Congratulations! And to @blueorigin too!”, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet.
”Congrats to @ulalaunch on the first flight of #Vulcan! Onboard was the @astrobotic Peregrine lander, which is carrying 5 @NASA payloads as part of our first #CLPS launch to the Moon. We are showing the power of American innovation and paving the way for future #Artemis missions”, Bill Nelson also shared.
Sadly, the space is not easy! And it requires very professional players!
After the deployment of the spacecraft, its developer, Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic, also said its ground controllers had successfully established contact with Peregrine. All seemed well as the spacecraft entered a highly elliptical orbit that will bring it toward the Moon in the coming weeks.
Engineers checking out the robotic Peregrine moon lander ran into problems keeping the spacecraft properly oriented, a potentially crippling issue for the first U.S. lunar lander since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago.
“Astrobotic-built avionics systems, including the primary command and data handling unit, as well as the thermal, propulsion and power controllers, all powered on and performed as expected,” the Pittsburgh-based company reported.
“Unfortunately, an anomaly occurred, which prevented Astrobotic from achieving a stable sun-pointing orientation. The team is responding in real-time as the situation unfolds and will be providing updates as data is obtained and analyzed.”
In a second update, the company said engineers believe the likely cause of the sun-pointing issue is “a propulsion anomaly that, if proven true, threatens the ability of the spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.”
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