Odysseus Moon Mission: We FINALLY Know What Went Wrong! 

The Odysseus mission failed successfully

Things to learn from this mission: 1. Build the next lander shorter and wider (i.e., a lower center of gravity). 2. Improve the software so it can spot and avoid rocks, holes, and depressions. 3. Gain better control of the lander's velocity so it can touch down at the engineers' desired speed.

Billion of dollars price but look at the camera resolution. Speechless

I wonder how the Soviets managed to soft-land their Luna probes (Luna 9 in 1966!) without LIDAR, high-performance on-board computers, etc., keep them from tipping over, and even operate 2 rovers on the moon.

Imagine a space mission where you go over countless checklist before launch only for someone to have forgotten to turn a switch. Can't believe we were able to land flawless with one try same environment 50yrs ago with a flimsy lander.

Early on, they let it slip that a technician failed to remove a safety on the primary landing system.

Engineering... That was a low speed crash. Top Management... A triumphant success! (How are my stock options doing?)

We can put multiple rovers and a helicopter on mars but we can’t land upright on the moon?

Why were they in such a hurry to land on the moon after arrival in the lunar orbit? They already discovered issues and doing few more through checking, testing and a day or two could have helped them firm up the software and maybe calibrate etc...why hurry?

Poor engineering, poor quality control, poor leadership and management = crash landing

Why was it built top-heavy

Chinese be landin' on the dark side of the moon like straight-up bosses, ya hear? Four legs planted firm on that lunar surface, holdin' it down.

In Jan 2019 chinese Cheng 4 landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the FAR SIDE of the Moon that was still unexplored by landers. The whole operation was coordinated via communication relay satellite. And the chinese lander deployed a robotic rover on the surface. I wonder if USA/NASA is able to perform such mission at this stage.

The instrument that calculated speed and altitude malfunctioned. They had NASA perform an extra orbit to give them time to come up with a convoluted solution that gave them a rough estimation. They knew it would miscalculate. The descent engine cut off prematurely so they dropped faster than they should have. They were also moving 2 meters a second laterally. Subsequent high res images of the spacecraft show that when they landed, one of the legs was broken completely off so that's why it is in its side. To me, the legs appear a bit dainty and for the next mission perhaps should be made more robust. The malfunction of the altitude and speed probably won't recur as no doubt that portion of hardware and software will be scrutinized. At least they can communicate to and receive comms from it. They can still get images and some of the many instrument packages onboard can still perform their experiments.

If they had had a last check then the switch would have been turned off. Then the landing would probably have been done properly. what a shame.

Even my $15 toy car (over 20 years old) is capable to correct itself and flip over and back to its normal position. It was just bad design. No excuses, please.

One small trip for a machine...

I would say it crashed.

Well , it landed , mostly in 1 piece , 238,855 miles away , pretty darn good I'd say ...

They need a weebles lander

Apollo had 5 moon landing missions, all 100% success.

Imagine if everyone found out there is not 1 actual real photo of "earth," and yet they think we travel to the moon😂

Cool. Show us the HD footage! Still think the public are daft!!

How about using the thrusters to try tipping it upright again. Unless it burned up all of the fuel.

How fast? Forgot someone failed to uncover the range finder

Should have sent a known good working space ship like Apolo instead of a rinkie dink why they set a space craft to Mars that bounced on the ground like a rubber ball and safely landed

Is it possible to forcibly eject the mounted small rover and move it to a position where it can observe its surroundings ? The "switch off" ? Very hard to believe, A 5g moon rover component must cost the same as 5g of gold, right ? Such a luxury should not be allowed on a commercial aircraft ( It would be more reasonable to make it mandatory for workers to wear laser resistant sunglasses ).

The mission was succeed, but disappointed, I would say. It looked like the lander jumped from a moving train, landed with a broken leg. it was caused by a regretable mistake, forgot to turn on a switch before leaving home. Also, the problem was found only a hour before landing, absolutely a great hollywood moive story line.

Japan's Slim tipped over,now Odysseus also is upside down what's happening?

2o% success, 80% failure.

Is any of that Odysseus moon lander made in China? Or they just better than us at landing on the moon

India China& Japan cannot believe the mighty USA made a huge BOOBOO !

A learning experience. It took spacex 4 tries before they got s successful launch.

Imagine live TV broadcast from moon in 1969.

Why not have a center mount robotic arm that can restabalize the lander should it tip over. I’m not Ana rocket scientist but Jesus, how simple. All this technology on laser range finders and crap. No one thought about hey what if, we tip over. Just like how the forgot to remove the safety covers for the lasers.

It probably landed perfectly.

idk man sounds like to me it's 50/50 they need to figure what worked n what didn't n move forward

Mission is successful in that the lander is positioned on moon. There could be many reasons for being toppled. In my opinion, it is like a days old baby who can only lie flat and look upwards only. Yet what is surprising to me is that I see videos telling about new data on moon revealed by lander. I wonder if it has a mind which can go out from body and wander on moon !

So they sent men to the moon and back 50+ years ago and they can’t get a successful moon landing with just instruments?

THOS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOON IN FIRST PLACE JUST TO PROVE YOUR BETTER THAN THE NEXT GUY AND WHEN YOU DO YOU PACK IT IN FOR 50 YEARS, ALL THAT EXPERIENCE WASTED

God I hate the annoying trend of using TTS narration, especially when there are obvious grammar errors and repetition of information. I know a lot of people have short term memory problems and have to have info repeated a number of times before it hopefully sinks in. Some basic editing, like reading aloud the script before sending it to the TTS program would highlight these issue and have the opportunity to correct before making the video public.

Don't you just love science fiction?

See how mankind is not developing 😢 man has still stuck to moon which was once reached 50 years ago. We hv to come out of it and the 9 planets and go beyond them..Come on man think big achieve big...

2:59 and later - Millipea? And unrelated graphics.

They keep patting themselves on the back and calling this failure a success?...go away and hire a better private company that can design a lander that won't fall over....jeez

Hmmmmmmm... so we have gotten worse at this in 50 years? Something is fishy

Top heavy…….you Think?

Beautiful simulated videos. A pity it turned info a (soft) crash…

Did he say "The rover may not come out" what rover?

What percentage of the original goal did IM-1 achieve?

Too bad our politicians are invested in war technology and not exploration like this. We’d be spending less billions and even trillions on weaponry and war. Right now that’s where the money is.

Anyway, it is real landing.

It crashed there I saved you from watching the video

Who in the hell filmed this

how embarrassing when compared to the recent Chinese mission

Well I think there is a need to work on a better auto-pilot, boys and girls... more like one that can act separate from a set of given possibilities, or don't make it so tall...

Based on the logic of this puff piece, the landing of the Hindenburg zeppelin in 1937 was "successful".

Quality issues

Not very intuitive you know hitting the rock at least no astronauts inside They had to land the Eagle by hand Neil Armstrong's hand Not too shabby for a bunch of the youngest engineers that nobody told they couldn't so they did 😊

If only it had a human on board.

Ha!

Sinkhole. Probably a burst water pipe.

Russia crashes, Japan crashes, China crashes, First India crash: Failed mission. Those f#*$ have a long way to go, need to build better landers.. America crashes: Well it's not a failed mission we can still communicate with the lander 😅

The ship is to skinny and top heavy.

Please no excuse, it totally failed. How much did NASA spend American hardworking taxes money for this project?

they failed the mission

Put a hoop up there and shoot balls

Expensive failure

bla bla. its a failure.😂

Successful mission, it opens the door for future expeditions.

Design failure.

Muaaaaahahahah.... 🤭😝🤪🤤😂👍 (🖕👌)

It's a Big Fail for me!

So, how much does it cost to fuckup a moon mission? Think I'll pass on that investment🤔

CGI? Really? Just stop

I think you can quit lying to everyone.

There evil plans has failed so woefully in the place of unKnown there is no lies there in the universe 😂

This mission was a total bust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....get your act together and maybe hire some folks who can get the job done correctly.!!!

With the advanced technology today, you were unable to successfully land Odysseus upright on the moon, yet you expect me to believe that astronauts accomplished lunar walks fifty years ago?

Fail

More proof we never went before

Try again and stop crying about it!

Learn from Indians.

A collosal waste of taxpayer money.

Is this going to help put food on my table? Will it help homeless veterans? IDGAF Until these problems are solved.

99.9 % Success .....

Very easy it prouves …they never went to the moon 🌚!!! After 50 years !? With the new technology !? , it tips over !? No way ! Bull shit they went to the moon !? They are traing now to land now ! What if there’s,where astronauts inside !? …. No way ! ….