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Seems the last telemetry was flipped. My bet is that the last final burn before contact with the surface caused it to flip. It also looked like it carried too m
by bArray 3y ago
Seems the last telemetry was flipped. My bet is that the last final burn before contact with the surface caused it to flip. It also looked like it carried too much velocity as the very end, again I think that's because it was doing the last hard burn in a direction not toward the surface.
Given how many failures there have been in the final process of contacting with the moon, I would be tempted to just embrace the velocity. One idea would be to use an anchor shot into the lunar surface.