#luna lander

[realspaceships]

NASA's Unpressurized Lunar Lander

[gorrus]

[beauty-funny-trippy]

These before and after photos taken by NASA's moon orbiter reveal the crash site of Vladimir Putin's failed Russian lunar lander. It slammed into the moon Aug.19, 2023, leaving a crater about 33ft (10m) wide. The probe was demolished on impact causing significant injury to Putin's ego.

[blue-sleeps-in]

woww man i love roscosmos i love the russian space program. 0 succesful missons beyond earth orbit since 1987

[richdadpoor]

India's Lunar Mission Captures Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Historic Landing

Image: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 is India’s second attempt to land on the Moon. The first attempt didn’t go so well: Chandrayaan-2 crashed on the Moon in September 2019 due to an issue with its braking thrusters. Chandrayaan-2 included a lander-rover duo, as well as an orbiter. The space agency lost contact with the Vikram lander when it was around 1.3 miles (2.1 kilometers) from the lunar surface,…

[countessofravenclaw]

Gastón's parents roasting German

[netmassimo]

Era passata da poco la mezzanotte in Italia quando il lander Nova-C Odysseus di Intuitive Machines ha tentato l'allunaggio nel cratere Malapert A. Si è trattato di una manovra autonoma che ha costituito il passo fondamentale della missione IM-1. Ci sono voluti circa 10 minuti per ricevere i primi deboli segnali da Odysseus ma sono stati preziosi per confermare l'avvenuto allunaggio. Al centro controllo missione di Intuitive Machines, è cominciato il lavoro per avere comunicazioni regolari che permettano di capire esattamente la situazione di Odysseus e di ricevere i dati raccolti, immagini comprese.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

CNN — Japan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed on the lunar surface, but the mission may end prematurely since the spacecraft’s solar cell is not generating electricity, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.

The agency said it is currently receiving a signal from the lander, which is communicating as expected.

The uncrewed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission landed just after 10:20 a.m. ET Friday (12:20 a.m. Saturday Japan Standard Time), according to telemetry data shared on JAXA’s live broadcast.

Currently, the lander is operating on limited battery power, only expected to last several hours.

The JAXA team is analyzing the data to determine the cause of the solar cell issue and the next steps for the lander.

It’s possible that the solar cell issue is due to the fact that the spacecraft is not pointing in the intended direction, JAXA officials said.

There is hope that as the solar angle changes on the moon, the solar cell may be able to charge again, but that may take some time and will depend on whether SLIM can survive the frigid lunar night, the team shared during a news conference.

The agency believes the mission has met the criteria to declare it a “minimum success,” because the spacecraft achieved a precise and soft lunar landing using optical navigation.

The touchdown makes Japan the third country this century — and the fifth ever — to land on the moon.

When asked to score the landing operation for SLIM, JAXA director general Dr. Hitoshi Kuninaka gave it a “60 out of 100,” while also mentioning that he is known for making “harsh comments.”

The team is also working to gather all of the scientific data obtained by the lander.

The lander was able to release its two lunar rovers, LEV-1 and LEV-2.

The LEV-1 rover moves using a hopping mechanism and is equipped with wide-angle visible light cameras, scientific equipment, and antennas that allow it to communicate with Earth.

And LEV-2, also outfitted with cameras, can change shape to move across the lunar surface.

The team is receiving a signal from LEV-1 and will see whether its cameras were able to capture any images.

JAXA officials said they will not definitively confirm the status of LEV-2 until more data is received.

The small-scale SLIM robotic explorer, which launched in September, goes by the nickname “Moon Sniper” because it carried new precision technology to demonstrate a “pinpoint” landing.

Previous lunar missions have been able to target and reach specific zones that spanned many kilometers, but the SLIM lander targeted a landing site that stretches just 100 meters (328 feet) across.

The lander’s “smart eyes” — an image-matching-based navigation technology — rapidly photographed the sloped lunar surface on approach and autonomously made adjustments as the spacecraft descended toward touchdown.

The JAXA team is still working to determine the accuracy of SLIM’s landing, which could take up to a month.

Moon Sniper’s journey

The Moon Sniper targeted a landing site near the small Shioli crater within a lunar plain called the Sea of Nectar that was created by ancient volcanic activity and lies just south of the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed in 1969.

The lander is designed to briefly study rocks at the site that could reveal insights into the moon’s origin.

When meteorites and other objects strike the moon, they create craters as well as rocky debris that litters the surface.

These rocks intrigue scientists because studying them is effectively like peering inside the moon itself.

Minerals and other aspects of the rocks’ composition can potentially shed more light on how the moon formed.

Landing near the sloped, rock-strewn areas around craters is a hazardous process that most missions usually avoid, but JAXA believes its lander has the technology to touch down safely on rocky terrain.

New space race

Multiple space agencies and countries have attempted moon landing missions over the past year, leading to a historic first as well as failures.

India became the fourth country — after the United States, the former Soviet Union and China — to execute a controlled landing on the moon when its Chandrayaan-3 mission arrived near the lunar south pole in August.

Meanwhile, Japanese company Ispace’s Hakuto-R lunar lander fell 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) before crashing into the moon during a landing attempt in April.

Russia’s Luna-25 also crash-landed in August during the country’s first attempt to return to the moon since the Soviet Union’s fall.

Astrobotic Technology’s Peregrine spacecraft — the first US lunar lander to launch in five decades — met a fiery end Thursday after a critical fuel leak made safely landing on the moon out of the question.

Part of the motivation behind the new lunar space race is a desire to access water trapped as ice in permanently shadowed regions at the lunar south pole.

It could be used for drinking water or fuel as humanity pushes the bounds of space exploration in the future.

This region is riddled with craters and strewn with rocks, leading to narrow landing sites.

The lightweight SLIM lander might be an effective design that could not only land in small areas of interest on the moon but also on planets such as Mars, according to JAXA.

[livingforstars]

Luna 9: First Soft Lander - August 25th, 1996.

"The Luna 9 spacecraft above performed the first soft landing on another planetary body. Following a series of failures, the Soviet probe touched down on the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum region on February 3rd, 1966. It accomplished this milestone in lunar exploration only shortly after the death of Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet Space Program. Reportedly, Korolev's colleagues wished to dedicate the Luna 9 mission to him, but were unable to as his role as the Chief Designer was still a state secret. A pole, just visible extending at the lower left, sensed the impact with the lunar surface, triggering the spacecraft to eject the weighted, egg-shaped capsule (upper right). The 250 pound capsule then struck the surface, rolled upright, unfolded four spring actuated petals to steady itself, and transmitted the first views from the lunar surface back to Earth."

[mindblowingscience]

Russia's first moon lander in 47 years has crashed into the lunar surface, the country's space agency reported on Sunday (Aug. 20).  The Luna-25 lander, which Russia had hoped would land at the south pole of the moon as early as Monday (Aug. 21), crashed into the moon after an orbital maneuver went wrong yesterday (Aug. 19), officials with Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.  "At about 14:57 Moscow time [on Aug. 19], communication with the Luna-25 spacecraft was interrupted," Roscosmos wrote in an update on Telegram today (in Russian; translation by Google). "The measures taken on August 19 and 20 to search for the device and get into contact with it did not produce any results."

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[heliosphere-underthesky]

Kinda of a random question but what do you imagine the characters voices sounding like?

Hi! Thanks for the question. I actually worked out most of the voice claims of the characters, and I plan to make a video of it someday when I've updated all their character art! (Mainly for the main cast.)

For now, I'll just list them down with links:

Main 8 + Luna

Sun - Neuvillette (EN CV: Ray Chase)

Mercury - Firion (EN CV: Johnny Yong Bosch)

Venus - Tigress (EN CV: Angelina Jolie)

Earth - Thoma (EN CV: Christian Banas) | Makoto Tachibana (JP CV: Tatsuhiza Suzuki)

Mars - Yuri Lowell (EN CV: Troy Baker)

Jupiter - Kokushibo (EN/JP, EN: Jonah Scott, JP: Okiayu Ryotaro) [MAY CONTAIN DEMON SLAYER SPOILERS!]

Saturn - Marth (EN CV: Yuri Lowenthal)

Uranus - Douma (EN/JP, EN: Stephen Fu, JP: Mamoru Miyano) [CLIP CONTAINS SOME GORE! And out of context KNY spoilers.Watch at your own risk.]

Neptune - Giorno Giovanna (EN/JP, EN: Phillip Reich, JP: Kensho Ono)

Luna - Aerith Gainsborough (EN CV: Briana White)

Dwarf Planets:

Pluto - Scaramouche / Wanderer (EN CV: Patrick Pedraza)

Ceres - Amber (EN CV: Kelly Baskin)

Moons:

[URANUS V] Miranda - Terra Branford (EN CV: Natalie Lander) | Mipha (JP CV: Mayu Isshiki)

[NEPTUNE I] Triton - Diluc (EN CV: Sean Chiplock)

[PLUTO IV] Kerberos - Cyno (EN CV: Alejandro Saab)

Comets and Asteroids:

Halley - Talking Tom (EN CV: Colin Hanks)

[poisonsunrise]

POISONSUNRISE / an independent and semi-selective multi-muse rp blog featuring characters from the wrestling industry. minors dni ; all characters will be at least 21+. below the cut will be a small set of rules and wrestlers i'm willing to write at the moment. i also have a discord available and my inbox is always open if you have any questions or want to start plotting!

rules / guidelines:

please be at least 21+ to interact with this blog, as well as your characters. i plan on writing mature themes and will be tagging all the necessary triggers. if there is something that i've missed, please let me know

i have over ten years experience of rping but haven't done it in over three years, so i'm a bit rusty. tumblr's aesthetics have changed a lot in that time so please be patient with me.

i don't have any primary muses set yet so i'm going to test a whole bunch and see who sticks. it might be them all, it might be ones who aren't even listed yet. if there is a muse that you want to write against and they aren't on my list, i might add them for you! all you need to do is ask.

i plan on writing in both kayfabe and non-kayfabe. however, each muse will primarily be written in multi-universes.

if i think of anything else, i'll add it here.

mun is 31 and hi my name is francesca

current test muses:

alba fyre

anna jay

andrade

baron corbin

bayley

blair davenport

brody king

bron breakker

carmelo hayes

cora jade

dakota kai

dani luna

gigi dolin

indi hartwell

isla dawn

jacy jayne

jade cargill

jake something

jamie hayter

jey uso

jimmy uso

jordynne grace

julia hart

killer kelly

kris statlander

liv morgan

lyra valkyria

mariah may

mercedes mone

penelope ford

ricky starks

roxanne perez

ruby soho

skye blue

steph de lander

tatum paxley

tegan nox

tiffany stratton

toni storm

wardlow

wheeler yuta

willow nightingale

[richdadpoor]

India's Lunar Mission Captures Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Historic Landing

Image: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 is India’s second attempt to land on the Moon. The first attempt didn’t go so well: Chandrayaan-2 crashed on the Moon in September 2019 due to an issue with its braking thrusters. Chandrayaan-2 included a lander-rover duo, as well as an orbiter. The space agency lost contact with the Vikram lander when it was around 1.3 miles (2.1 kilometers) from the lunar surface,…

[ivykim]

VIVI LOG #1

masterlist // wattpad

summary: join ivy as she shows you her little vlog. this includes lots of adorable cats (featuring heeseung), her amazing singing (featuring aria, bailey and skye) and a late night walk home, featuring jay.

ivy’s outfit: cat cafe | karaoke | late night walk with jay

NOTE: so around this time jay and ivy were already dating since this is the first EN-loG that came out in August 2021. i'm assuming the boys recorded their vlogs in july or somewhere around there (after drunk-dazed promotions before tamed-dashed era). if you see cute haseong moments in here, that's the reason.

ivy goes to wave goodbye to the boys who were at home, she walks out and enters the car (with heeseung). her manager was driving her. ivy politely bows to the camera slightly.

"hello everyone, today i will be going somewhere that i've always been wanting to go!"

"i think many of you would be excited(?) to see me here since many engenes have pointed out that i resemble this animal."

"if you said it was a cat, then you are right. we are going to a cat cafe!" she hears a snort beside her. she pans the camera to heeseung.

"heeseung-shi, why are you laughing at me?"

"i wasn't laughing at you, you were just adorable." heeseung explains.

"hmm...okay. the reason why i am going to a cat cafe is to relieve stress. i miss my own cat, luna, as unfortunately she is in america right now with my family."

"anyways, we'll see you once i arrive at the cafe." she blows a kiss to the camera.

ivy arrives at the cat cafe and so she goes to take her order for drinks and cakes. she patiently waits until, a cat rubs against her legs. she grabs the camera and records the cat.

"this cat is so pretty, it's making me miss my own cat even more." ivy pouts. she goes to pet it but it jumps onto her and happily settles down on her lap.

"seems like the cat likes you." heeseung says. ivy looks over at the boy. he was scratching the cats head, it was purring softly.

"hmm i do love a man who loves cats you know." ivy smirks.

"ivy's fanboys, take note of that. ivy likes guys who love cats." heeseung tells the camera. ivy playfully rolls her eyes, she stops recording and lays her head on heeseung's shoulder.

"hee, it's been a while since we've had a proper date..." ivy turns to look at the boy.

"we're in public, angel. wouldn't want anyone to find out about us, hmm?" heeseung pecks her forehead. ivy plays with heeseung's fingers.

"okay." heeseung tilts ivy's face so he could look at her.

"you make me really weak, you know?" heeseung gives her an eskimo kiss. ivy blushes.

"i thought you said we were in public and that we could get caught."

"changed my mind. not when you look this hot." ivy shoves heeseung slightly.

"you are being a pervert."

"now, why would i be a pervert?" he leans down to her ears, "if you dressed up like this all for me. hmm?" she feels him smirking.

"i-i need to record so don't try anything." ivy warns heeseung. he chuckles.

"just teasing, vivi. i'll get us our drinks." he ruffles her hair.

ivy doesn't even realise she turned on the camera already. it records her lovingly gazing at heeseung.

— caption: "oh? the editors left this in here? to explain, heeseung was grabbing our drinks so yeah!! there isn't much talking but here are some videos of me and heeseung playing with the cats!"

— caption: "let's move onto, karaoke!! with my friends!! bye bye, heeseung :("

it was the next day, ivy had planned to go karaoke with her friends.

"so i'm not exactly sure if i'm able to say their names but if anyone watched I-LAND, you would surely know who they are!"

bailey, aria and skye entered the frame and waved to the camera.

"this is bailey, skye and aria unnie. they were i-landers just like me. these 3 just debuted in a new girl group under HYBE as well so i will get to see them around."

"if you don't know their group name, it is CLOUD. there is i believe 4 other members in the group but i have yet to meet them. hopefully, i will be able to in the future! for now, i am here to celebrate and congratulate them on their debut with a girls day out!"

"unnie?" skye says.

"yes, skye?" ivy asks.

"aren't we supposed to turn to the right instead of left?" ivy looks down on her GPS. she sighs before turning back to the camera.

"we'll be right back. just have to locate the karaoke place."

they finally located the karaoke place and went to pay before entering the area. they bought snacks and drinks to have. ivy places the camera on the table next to the tv.

they grabbed the song picker and added it into the playlist.

"let's see if they have any enhypen songs!" bailey says. they gasp when they find drunk-dazed on it.

"they have drunk-dazed??" ivy says. bailey taps on it and the familiar melody starts playing.

"why does it sound like a folk song?" aria asks.

"don't know but aREumDApGO hwANGhOLhAE." ivy starts singing weirdly. aria and skye laughs. bailey looks over at ivy, a little concerned for her same aged friend.

ivy points to camera during her part. everyone joins in singing with her. aria takes a video of ivy before sending it to heeseung.

— caption: "what is wrong with me that day? i didn't drink at all since skye was present...and you know she's a minor."

ivy starts dancing weirdly in front of the camera.

— caption: "oh my god, kim haeun! you are an idol!! maintain a good image please T_T oh no. please stop."

thankfully, the staff edited the video appropriately so ivy's idol image was protected. they left the karaoke room after a lot of fun. it was quite late about 7pm so they went out to a little (this was off-camera).

they left the restaurant and ivy pulls out the camera to record them hugging and leaving. jay and their manager arrives on time. he smiles at the girls and they waved at him.

jay grabs ivy's hand and helps her into the van.

"WE SEE YOU IVY!!! TEXT THE GROUPCHAT LATER!!" aria yells. ivy laughs. the manager starts to drive after jay and ivy were settled in.

"engenes, are probably curious as to why you are here." ivy turns the camera to jay. jay laughs.

"noona promised me a late night walk since she went out with jungwon."

"he couldn't sleep, what was i supposed to do? you know jungwon deserves the world, jongseong."

"i know, he does deserve the world. i just felt sad that you didn't go with me."

"well now, you are going alone with me." ivy says.

"even better." jay flirts.

— caption: "STOP JONGSEONG😲"

they went home first. ivy went to take a shower and changed into more comfortable clothes. once she was done, both her and jay started to walk.

"engenes, look over there. the sky at night is really pretty." ivy points out to the camera.

"noona?"

"yeah?" she turns to look at jay.

"you know what's prettier?" jay asks.

please don't say me.

"what is?" ivy says.

"engenes."

it was like she could hear the glass shatter.

"oh. you're right, engenes are way prettier." ivy smiles. "it would be great if we could bring the enhypen puppers here for a walk eventually." ivy sighs.

jay sneakily holds onto her hand. ivy blushes.

"you're right noona. it would be great."

"i wish luna was here. she would've loved the outdoors."

"then i wouldn't be able to go with you."

"well that's sad for you." ivy sticks out her tongue.

"come here, give me the camera. engenes, can get a good girlfriend shot of you." jay says.

"you're right."

"here engenes, you are now jay or well jay is engene now."

"you are always my bias, noona." jay says behind the camera.

"lies. you said jungwon was your bias."

"engenes, always say that too but they don't really stay loyal huh."

"you're calling them out, jongseong."

ivy notices it was getting quite late.

"we should head back, we have a schedule tomorrow."

"mmm, want me to take pictures of you before we get back?"

"sure."

and so jay took pictures of her. the video ends off with a few montages of her and jay walking around the park and fooling around. off-camera, ivy and jay had a mini date. they held hands and jay even snuck in a kiss when no one was around.

it was great night for both ivy and jay.

[video end]

[tomorrowusa]

Yes, Russia is using old tires to protect its strategic bombers from Ukrainian drones.

Russia is covering aircraft with car tires, potentially to protect them from Ukrainian drones

This is the same sort of technology that gave us the recent Luna-25 lunar lander. 😝

All Ukraine has to do is use infrared cameras – if they're even really needed. The burning tires will only make the fires harder to put out.

If the Russians ever need to use those planes in a hurry, they're going to fall behind schedule by having to remove those tires.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft on Thursday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM).

Unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week last month.

Dubbed the "moon sniper," Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface.

The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

"The big objective of SLIM is to prove the high-accuracy landing ... to achieve 'landing where we want' on the lunar surface, rather than 'landing where we can'," JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa told a news conference.

The launch comes two weeks after India became the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 mission to the unexplored lunar south pole.

Around the same time, Russia's Luna-25 lander crashed while approaching the moon.

Two earlier lunar landing attempts by Japan failed in the last year.

JAXA lost contact with the OMOTENASHI lander and scrubbed an attempted landing in November.

The Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander, made by Japanese startup ispace (9348.T), crashed in April as it attempted to descend to the lunar surface.

SLIM is set to touch down on the near side of the moon close to Mare Nectaris, a lunar sea that, viewed from Earth, appears as a dark spot.

Its primary goal is to test advanced optical and image processing technology.

After landing, the craft aims to analyse the composition of olivine rocks near the sites in search of clues about the origin of the moon. No lunar rover is loaded on SLIM.

Thursday's H-IIA rocket also carried the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite, a joint project of JAXA, NASA and the European Space Agency.

The satellite aims to observe plasma winds flowing through the universe that scientists see as key to helping understand the evolution of stars and galaxies.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) manufactured the rocket and operated the launch, which marked the 47th H-IIA rocket Japan has launched since 2001, bringing the vehicle's success rate close to 98%.

JAXA had suspended the launch of H-IIA carrying SLIM for several months while it investigated the failure of its new medium-lift H3 rocket during its debut in March.

Japan's space missions have faced other recent setbacks, with the launch failure of the Epsilon small rocket in October 2022, followed by an engine explosion during a test in July.

The country aims to send an astronaut to the moon's surface in the latter half of the 2020s as part of NASA's Artemis programme.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/japan-launches-rocket-carrying-moon-lander-slim-after-three-delays-2023-09-06/

Japan launches 'Moon Sniper' mission | AFP

7 September 2023

Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.