Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with SLIM spacecraft [video]

Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by qingcharles on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:18PM (#39058043)

Landing was successful.

It is communicating with Earth, but the solar cell is not providing power so they are burning up the battery.

They are trying to get as much data from the unit as possible before the battery dies.

They took photos and are downloading them as priority now.

They have been forced to switch off the heater.

There is only a few hours of battery available to do what they need.

They have separated LEV1 and LEV2 (rovers).

Stay posted, they say. Need more time to figure out what is going on.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by nickmcc on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:46PM (#39061657)

Has anyone confirmed if LEV1 and LEV2 can continue to operate and communicate to earth independently from SLIM, if the SLIM batteries fail?

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by londons_explore on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:25PM (#39063300)

one can, the other cannot

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by tuukkah on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:50AM (#39066690)

LEV-1 transmits directly to earth, and (based on what they said at the press conference) LEV-2 communicates via LEV-1.

Link to the part about LEV-2: https://www.youtube.com/live/nvXLt3ET9mE?feature=shared&t=17...

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by fffernan on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:18PM (#39061324)

Happens to me all the time in Kerbal

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by deepsun on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:36PM (#39062920)

Usually because I forgot about the solar panels.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by raisin_churn on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:12PM (#39063983)

Fortunately with EVA construction you can now just send Bill to glue one on. I hope JAXA is running >1.11.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by efitz on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:02AM (#39064856)

And the ladder

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by azernik on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:05AM (#39066411)

The actual intended landing profile and the likely failure mode are both extremely Kerbal.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by sjwhevvvvvsj on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:08PM (#39058882)

Isn’t there just an “IT guy” they can send over?

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by T-A on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:18PM (#39059040)

You just reminded me of this little cinematic gem:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_8_tt_6...

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by seraphsf on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:55PM (#39060244)

Love that movie! What an amazing piece of small-scale sci-fi.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by ddol on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:16PM (#39064005)

Another great small budget movie is Primer (2004).

It has one of the biggest Budget to Box office multiples I know of: ~120x ($7k -> $841k)

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by grecy on Friday January 19, 2024 @11:28PM (#39064672)

I think Mad Max holds the record. (the original)

Mad Max. $200k budget, almost $100m worldwide, for a 495x ROI

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by kevinmchugh on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:20AM (#39064938)

Deep Throat had at least a 600x multiple (a budget of $47,000 and a box office somewhere between 30 million and 50 million). Blair witch had over a 1000x multiple, with the same 200k budget as mad Max and a box office around 200 million. Paranormal Activity also seems to be close to the 1000x mark.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by archermarks on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:05PM (#39069735)

EmpLemon has a video about this. He argued Blair Witch had the highest multiple (~1200x)

https://youtu.be/PYmi559SpWI?si=_oTiHXTili5K6W5s

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by HPMOR on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:45PM (#39059344)

Wow seems like a great movie!

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by riffraff on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:09PM (#39061211)

it's an absolute masterpiece.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by qingcharles on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:40PM (#39060059)

It's an awesome under-rated gem.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by belter on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:20PM (#39059798)

It is. Great finale also.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by noncoml on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:03PM (#39061881)

It is! Highly recommended!

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by deepsun on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:41PM (#39062962)

The best acting by Kevin Spacey!

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by dtgriscom on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:27PM (#39064057)

What a quiet, calm, moving soundtrack.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by aikinai on Saturday January 20, 2024 @04:01AM (#39065832)

I had never heard of Moon and randomly picked it to watch on an airplane with no Internet. I was not prepared for that good of a movie!

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by sjwhevvvvvsj on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:13AM (#39076065)

Phenomenal performance.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by ASalazarMX on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:17PM (#39061312)

I hope to see the time when it's normal to send a pair/party of multifunctional robots instead of a single rover. Imagine them repairing each other's back.

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by layer8 on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:42PM (#39060850)

Have they tried turning it off and on again?

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by dotancohen on Friday January 19, 2024 @10:48PM (#39064474)

Jeb?

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by 3kjj23iiinn on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:21AM (#39068423)

Successful? Hey Boss, the production is not accessible, because the entire power grid is down, but it's a success anyway, because we were able to deploy the latest version!!

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Re:Live: Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing attempt with ... by edvinbesic on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:49AM (#39068739)

I’m not sure of the mission specifics here but my understanding is that the novelty was the landing maneuver which puts the lander within 100m of its designated target. From that POV you could definitely argue success.

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