And the future of the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years is coming to an abrupt end ctv’s Garrett bar on why the multi-million dollar failure is still being considered a success engineers in Houston are racing against time tonight to get more data
Off of the Moon before their Transmissions go quiet their lunar lander ody disusing in fact it may already be dead doomed by a flubbed landing that put the spacecraft on its side caught a foot in the surface and the and the Lander has tipped like this
And we believe this is the surf the the orientation of the Lander on the moon solar panels are pointed in the wrong direction and so are the antennas which makes transmission even slower earlier today intuitive machines the company that spent a100 million to build the Lander estimated there were only a few
Hours left before od’s battery is depleted the mission has captured and transmitted these images taken while adicus was still in Flight approximately 30 m above the moon’s surface the real take-home message with any space mission is it’s about the journey it’s about those those failures it’s about the successes it’s
About the whole trajectory and we’re all making our way into the future together and I think if you’re not at least celebrating part of it I think you might be missing a point these pictures show the South Pole region of the moon it’s the first time anything’s gotten so
Close it’s alluring to researchers and astronauts this region could even have frozen water it could be key for future exploration just because the mission failed doesn’t mean there was a a big suitcase with millions of dollars in it that got left on the moon we spent that money we’re learning from that
Investment in the Future 2 the team behind this lunar Mission will speak again tomorrow where it’s expected they will release more photos from the moon lunar lander G Barry CTV News St John’s
Lunar lander Odysseus is going dark sooner than expected. But as Garrett Barry explains, the landing is still a success for space lovers.
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