Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
www.theguardian.com
Robotic private spacecraft touched down about 250 meters from its intended landing site on Thursday

Even if it landed correctly, why would they plan a solar powered mission to the moon when our next lunar eclipse is in like 5 days?

      • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yes, and eggs have weight.

        So they couldn’t use eggs as a power supply.

        Therefore, the only alternative was to rely entirely on solar.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          Meanwhile, they now have nuclear diamond batteries. Hell, the Voyagers have been running on aging plutonium for nearly 50 years.

          You’d figure a modern expensive system like that might have a modern secondary power source, at least enough juice to run for two weeks FFS…

          • Voyajer@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            Because for the amount of power needed they would have to halve its payload capacity if they used RTGs

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Chief O’Brien would be so disappointed. he wouldn’t like to be caught without a secondary backup in a crunch.