Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Crash Landed on its head (I always though the design looked built to spill anyway), sent no images, I don’t believe we gained any scientific data (please correct me if I missed something on that front though), and froze to death in a week. This would all be a nice try and some learning progress if it was 1971 perhaps, but this goes in the failure book for sure. Not to say that failure = useless / bad. But let’s save the champagne success story for a company that gets it right.

    • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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      8 months ago

      It’s very good and learning progress for the 20s too. In the last 5 years for lunar lander missions we’ve had 6 outright failures, 2 successes, and this is the second “mixed success”

      When nobody in your country does something for decades and then a different group of people try doing it in different ways, they’re largely starting from scratch.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      8 months ago

      sent no images

      If you check the comments on Ars Technica, someone reposted an image that’s supposed to have come from the lander (it’s an uncorrected shot through a fisheye lens, though). Given that the link with Odysseus is apparently barely faster than an acoustic-coupler modem, I’m not expecting much more.