Yes and ARTEMIS is not going to be affected at all...not even the ULA launcher that went perfect...this a filure that doesn't affect at all NASA lunar program
@@DrinkTheKoolAid62This was a brand new launch vehicle. NASA intentionally chose a low value (they have a whole grading system for payloads apparently) payload to test it out.
It could be a problem something can't deploy or like extend instead of just an attitude problem. Depending if that is the case it may not be capable of doing anything.
My understanding now is that they were able to turn the solar panels towards the Sun, but also discovered a propellent leaking problem. There may not be enough fuel if any to make a landing now.
@@filipe5722It was the first launch under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services, CLPS. They purchased the service to deliver five experiments to the lunar surface. Astrobotics designed, built and operates the spacecraft.
This is typical of how US conducts big projects that in crunch time, government may take initial ownership (like Apollo, war production, COVID PPE, etc); eventually however the private sector has to take it on for economic scaling and efficiency. There is no other country doing really quite like this so it may look odd to them. Chances are US as an enterprise will catch up very quickly on the lunar thing, because it is a business.
NASA needs to show the US still has the capabilities to land safely on the Moon. Their strategy was to pay two companies to do it, which is a fair strategy, if it works well. If it doesn't, you can expect a lot more stress and possible delays on Artemis program.
Why does NASA 'pay' Private Companies with Public money to develop the whole thing ? Aren't they supposed to be 'Private' ? How is it private any longer if the whole thing is sponsored by NASA ? Or maybe only 20-30% is sponsored by NASA, which I suppose is alright.
This project donee by a Private company not NASA involved in this project Eg. spacex many times failed NASA does not have only one company today nasa has many companies working on moon lander
The US has launched serveral orbiters around the moon in the 1990 2000 time frame Clementine and the lunar recon orbiter. We have not been totally absent.
As a kerbal space program astronaut and control center commander I just recommend reverting back to assembly real quick before it gets too far like why waste all the time you know
In the US, a small company (Astrobotic) is sending a lander to the moon, while in the rest of the world, there are the governments that are doing so. I am not trying to belittle other countries' efforts, but they need to up their games too.
Other countries don't have access to the information gathered by NASA. That small company is likely using technology and information they did not gather themselves. Their "game" is fine. There is nothing on the moon that we need more than peace on Earth.
India has also opened up space domain for private sector 5 yrs ago and many new space startups are building rockets. Within next 10 yrs, they'll be gunning for moon too
Like Spain sending a unmanned Santa Maria 600 years later to rediscover the Americas . Fun Fact- More people on the earth today were not alive when the last person walked on the moon .
Maybe the spacecraft is lacking fuel to propel itself to the moon this problem needs to be troubleshooted. I suggest that it will use the moon's sphere of influence and capture orbit around the moon and slowly lower the orbit and land. That saves a lot of fuel.
First, that's a great idea. Everyone already knows that, it's how going to the Moon has always been done. The problem is fuel. They're using it up keeping the spacecraft from tumbling. If they let it tumble, they'll lose solar power. When the fuel is used up, there won't be any to change orbits and land. There has been one problem so far, leaking fuel and the propulsion system and it's caused many issues. Power, the vehicle is now physically wrinkled, it can't recover and maintain itself - it's going to be over soon.
@@marybailey7881 The launch and failure has been been covered on CNN, CBS, the New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today, Business Insider, BBC, Sky News, Fox Business and the list goes on and on. What mainstream media on your planet is not covering the story? What conspiracy theory site told you that?
yeah, i am pretty sure you are being paid by some organization to clean up any comments that make M$M or NA$A look bad. Why are you so interested in "fact checking" my comment?
The good news is that it is American Made! Yeah I am not so sure that is good for your brand. It is good news for other space agencies but not the American made one
@@JigilJigil I imagine that small company in the USA has more toilets than India all together. And even so, people that don’t use toilet paper landed on the moon
@@USAads2023 Who do you think helped India with the tech for their space program in the first place....? Would be bit weird for India to laugh at those they needed the expertise of so that India could get to the moon too.
Sorry to disappoint you but India 🇮🇳 is not laughing। Stop extrapolating your white racist views to other countries' too 😊 We wish this mission becomes a succes ❤ From 🇮🇳
This was just an attempt by a small private company with total of 130 employees, FYI NASA landed has landed a rover on Mars 3 years ago, and Mars is about 585 times farther than the Moon.
60 years ago we got this to work. Thousands of near earth missions since. Now when the craft is headed to the moon, it all goes wrong. Somewhat strange....
I love DW, but this particular journalist knows NOTHING about space. NASA has launched spacecraft to the moon since 1972, including the recent lunar reconnaissance orbiter, which brought back incredible pictures. Do some research!
@@JigilJigilbut if it was successful mission there would have been only NASAs name ! For example in 2008 it was Indian mission space carft and the probe which actually found water signs on moon there were two instruments both detected water 😂 one of them was payload by NASA ! And one was India's own device ! But NASA claimed it that its there success in books and mostly Internet ITS shows still that NASA was the one who found water on Moon majority times😂 ! Haha credit stealers ! And it was the nexus event in history which started moon race again 😉 so India should be credited for this but India did not got the credit it deserve until we send Chandrayan -3 Time line of the all 3 projects is 2008 CH-1 2019CH-2 2022 CH-3 (AFTER Financial crisis of 2008 and older congress party govt. That times Indian govt. Failed to capitalized in space sector) modi was the one who fully backed the project despite project half faillure in 2019
After 50 years, Americans forgot how to land on the moon again. In fact nowadays, they do not even know if they are male or female. That is why in emails, they must state their pronouns there
Space Karen Elon will twit on X claiming by the end of the 2024 Starship will land on the moon. Then he will say the same for 2025, 2026, 2027, and so on. Just like he has been saying with fully autonomous driving Teslas since 2017. And thats never happened yet .
You are right, this generation here in the West will not land people on the Moon for the foreseeable future, the next decade or 2 decades at least, though it is just possible the Chinese will before then.
@@user-we8hi4yu6 So, the US government paid for the development? How is it then everybody talks about the "private sector" and "new space". It's no different than "old space": government pays, industry gets the contract.
@@odrilYes, NASA paid for it. Difference is that before the company would deliver the lander to NASA and they would control the mission. In this case, Astrobotic was paid to put themselves the lander on the Moon. Hopefully, for NASA, to start the age of commercial lunar landings.
This means, America never went to the moon in the first instance. maybe they should just shoot another video in the desert and tell us it was the moon again
Failed? Not really, they both got off the pad. Success through failure. Just look at the history of the original SpaceX Falcon rocket, the predecessor to the Falcon 9.
Starship launches are not failed at all. They are pathfinder launches. Both have exceeded expectations. How many Saturn 5 test launches were there before the mission. Check your history before commenting pal.
It am glad that this mission failed since the payload was a soda can for a energy drink company and some human ashes so...all good.American wont even leave moon for their marketing gimmick
The relevant payload was the lander, a rover from a Mexican university, and a proof of concept cuberover. But yeah, irrelevant people focus on the irrelevant stuff.
This problem is more easily fixed though. Russia seems to have lost the capability to land softly on the Moon. We still don't know if the US got it or not (this mission and the one next Moon would shows us), but they regularly send satellites, orbiters, and landers into space with no problem, so this problem so far can be considered a fluke.
Actually it's more embarrassing for Russia, this is just a small private company in US (Astrobotic) while we have a whole country of Russia with 70+ years of space program miserably failing.
Another piece of bad taste journalism. Well, actually the mission was a great success because after many years of research and development the Vulcan rocket made by two private companies is a fact - a cheap and reliable vehicle. This is the bigger part of the story and that is the American part of the story. "First US lander in 50 years" implies that it is a state project that failed. But it isn't, it is a private. There are still some places of the world where people have dreams and try and fail and try again and finally some of them succeed, for us all to live better with their discoveries. Some risk their careers, some risk their capital, some gave up their social live. But risk and trial and failure and success is not something known to a person in comfortable government job. "What could go wrong"? Many things could go wrong if you are afraid of the unknown and taking risks, your auto-industry, the IT-sector, the AI, the chemical industry ... who knows what's next. I wonder why didn't we see any news on the launch of the rocket itself, like we saw in most other news outlets? Yeah, success of others is not something we want to promote, they are just printing money and wasting it on ego-driven projects. Let's promote some social spending for the people who don't want to struggle and fail so we all live a life without responsibility. But why not mock their attempts and convince ourselves we are more rational. Just do not forget: mocking is not what rational people do.
You supposed to hire the best and this ended in late sixties now you have to have quotas of females, minorities etc. and results are obvious. Don't forget math is racist.
No, they wouldn't. China already proved multiple times they can soft land in the Moon. Had this mission been Chinese and it would rightfully labelled a fluke.
