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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death (arstechnica.com)

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I were handing out letter grades for space probes and landers, they'd get a C on this one (maybe C+ if they somehow manage to get significant payload data back over the very low-bandwidth link they've been able to establish). Why? Well, first of all, they actually made it to the moon rather than stalling out in orbit or wandering off in the wrong direction. Secondly, the probe soft-landed, rather than plowing a new crater and spreading parts all over a kilometer radius, and it was in good enough shape to phone home. They got two out of three of the most important things right. Now they just have to work on keeping it upright on the way down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And they've done better than we did with Beagle 2.

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