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Soloman Dodd said:
Top heavy stuff still suffers from inertia, low gravity just makes it go wrong more slowly.
Low gravity also makes self-correction potentially easier. Given this is 2 for 2 failures from this outfit, finding mass budget for a self-righting arm would seem like one solution 
A fundamentally new architecture would be another. But whether these guys will get funding for another try isn’t clear right now…
Surely these contracted out by nasa moon missions are a con. A lot of money must be needed for testing everything works and correcting again and again.
We seem to have missions that sort of hit the moon. Then due to being upside down you dont have to prove anything works.
Cant even land where you want to. Just saying moon to the bodged up satnav gizmo is not enough. Imagine a future resupply or rescue mission.
Just being 10 miles away let alone the usual 100s of miles spells doom.
At least the press and media are less inclined to describe this stuff as a success now due to current fraught relations.
JFK should have said we do it not because its easy,but because its hard to see though our efforts to look better than anyone else.
lol
We seem to have missions that sort of hit the moon. Then due to being upside down you dont have to prove anything works.
Cant even land where you want to. Just saying moon to the bodged up satnav gizmo is not enough. Imagine a future resupply or rescue mission.
Just being 10 miles away let alone the usual 100s of miles spells doom.
At least the press and media are less inclined to describe this stuff as a success now due to current fraught relations.
JFK should have said we do it not because its easy,but because its hard to see though our efforts to look better than anyone else.
lol
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