News

Hosted on MSN1mon
NASA's brand-new Lunar Trailblazer probe suffers glitch on way to the moon
Lunar Trailblazer launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Feb. 26 alongside Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander on the IM-2 mission. The 11.5-foot (3.5-meter), 440-pound (200-kilogram) probe was ...
Hackaday1y
The Glitch That Brought Down Japan’s Lunar Lander
But when a computer happens to be descending towards the lunar surface and glitches out ... Hakuto-R Lunar lander made its mark on the Moon…by crashing into it. [Scott Manley] dove in to ...
Business Insider India6y
Israeli scientists' attempt at the first private moon landing failed because of a glitch that caused a high-speed crash into the lunar surface
An ill-timed technical glitch prevented Beresheet from slowing ... high for it to slow down sufficiently before impacting the moon. The first technical issue occurred a little less than 9 miles ...