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Oh no!!! I’ll have to re-read the article 🫤
Oh no!!! I’ll have to re-read the article 🫤
They updated the article:
Finally, a faint signal was picked up by a communications antenna in the United Kingdom, indicating the spacecraft had, in fact, survived the touchdown.
“What we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the moon, and we are transmitting,” Mission Director Tim Crain told the flight control team. “So congratulations, IM team! We’ll see how much more we can get from that.”
And then further down:
But a detailed assessment of the health of the spacecraft and its payloads awaited analysis of telemetry. Finally, two hours after touchdown, the company reported that “after troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.”
Oh I love chips on a sandwich! I don’t care much for adding flavor but I really enjoy the crispy texture you don’t normally get
This was an interesting conversation to follow, but I got lost on the acronyms. Could you expand those please? TIA (thanks in advance)!
That was a very succinct explanation; two sentence refresher course. Thank you!
I can’t think of a time steam was down (for me personally, I know outages happen) that wasn’t planned and announced well ahead of time
And I’ve got a lot of hours on steam
Even better is aquarium water!
Obviously not if they can’t handle the nutrients, like Venus fly traps