On August 23, 2023, India's Chandrayaan-3 probe made a successful soft landing in the region near the moon's south pole. This makes India the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon and the first to land near the moon's south pole.
It is a "miracle" that India's lunar probe was able to land successfully.
As early as July 14, 2023, after the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the rocket with Chandrayaan-3 into the sky, because its apogee was much lower than planned, many domestic lunar exploration missions would fail. However, with the "magic skill" of swinging, the Indian probe actually swung all the payloads into the orbit of the moon.
And then a month after Russia carried the Luna-25 probe Soyuz-2The launch of the 1B launch vehicle, which was originally planned to be 10 days later, arrived earlier than India for a soft landing at the south pole of the moon. However, when the Luna-25 probe tried to enter the pre-landing orbit, the engine ignited and ran for 127 seconds, 43 seconds more than the scheduled 84 seconds, and finally caused the probe to crash into the lunar surface.
This "outpost" of the Artemis program, which the United States has landed on the moon again after more than 50 years, may have encountered a major setback.
On January 8, 2024, the new Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle with NASA's dream was successfully launched, and the first flight mission was a complete success.
However, the Peregrine Falcon, which was carrying a lunar lander, could not carry out the instructions to adjust the solar panels after entering orbit, which caused the Peregrine Falcon to be unable to recharge its batteries at the sun. Aerospace Robotics Technology Company carried out emergency rescue on it, and after that, the "Peregrine Falcon" was able to adjust the angle of the solar panel to complete the charging and successfully "continue its life".
Then, as a result, the Peregrine Falcon's attitude control and propulsion system failures were difficult to fundamentally solve, and the Aerospace Robotics Corporation said that the failure caused a serious leak of the Peregrine Falcon's propellant, and the Peregrine Falcon could eventually operate for only 40 hours.
Now, all the U.S. can do is get the Peregrine Falcon as close to the moon as possible before it loses its attitude toward the sun and loses momentum. "This means that the mission to the moon, originally scheduled for February 23, has lost its possibility. ”
Artemis Project Imagination Diagram.
Although it is too early to say defeat, the United States, which has done a lot of votes on this route 50 years ago, wants to follow India's example and stumble to make a "miracle", who can believe that the United States, which still has multiple probes playing on Mars, did it?
For this mission, NASA is looking for a private company, "Aerospace Robotics Corporation", why?
Could it be that NASA has long lost faith in the "Artemis Project" and found a private company to contract this matter, and it is better to throw the blame if it fails?
Or is it wrong to rush to wipe the floor on the moon to meet the Chinese before China sends people to the moon?
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