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Re:Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night by dotnet00 on Sunday April 28, 2024 @11:07AM (#40189151)
Of course you can do all sorts of things to make the electronics able to survive, but ultimately that supposedly just wasn't part of the initial design requirements they settled on.
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Re:Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night by yencabulator on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:57PM (#40190889)
It's good to remember that the total lifetime budget of this lander is only $121.5 million, and that includes all the staff still receiving data. It was always intended to be a technology demonstrator, not an ongoing science lab.
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