Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon
www.theguardian.com
Robotic private spacecraft touched down about 250 meters from its intended landing site on Thursday

Even if it landed correctly, why would they plan a solar powered mission to the moon when our next lunar eclipse is in like 5 days?

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 hours ago

    We have uranium in our tap water here. As long as it remains less that 43 parts per million, they consider it ‘safe’. With hundreds of millions of dollars to throw around, it can’t be all that difficult to filter enough uranium out for the energy for a two week mission.

    And it was a private spacecraft, not made by NASA (although it carried some of their sensors and equipment).