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NASA Moon Lander in Trouble [Space News Pod Live Replay] · Elon Musk Podcast

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It's a ongoing mission. There's a, you know, there's
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Peregrine Lander that's in trouble right now.
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The lander's in trouble. Let me know if you have any
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issues hearing my audio as well. We had some issues yesterday, so
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just want to make sure everything's good, all right?
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I think everything's good on my end.
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All my levels seem fine, so let me know in the chat.
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Actually, if you can hear me, if you can see me, all that stuff.
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Right now, there's been a loss of propellant from the Peregrine
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Lander. So the loss of propellant means
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that they might not be able to do their initial mission, which
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is land on the moon and conduct science on the moon's surface.
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It's very unfortunate. It's a really, really
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interesting mission. But we have to make sure that,
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you know, I have to make sure that everybody knows what's
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going on because we're going to continue with this developing
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story as the news breaks. So about four hours ago,
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Astrobotic sent out a tweet. It is heartbreaking to hear
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these things because hundreds of people worked on these, on these
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missions. You know, there's people that
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spent long hours, nights, weekends, time away from their
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family, time away from their loved ones to build these
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Landers. That this could have been the
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first commercial lunar Lander that launched on a NASA mission
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on a ULA rocket on a Vulcan rocket.
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So let's take a look at this tweet from Astrobotic earlier
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today. This is about four hours ago
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Astrobotic tweeted this after successfully separating from
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United to Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic Peregrine
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lunar Lander began receiving telemetry via the NASA Deep
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Space Network. So that's all good.
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It's all good stuff. Astrobotic's built avionic
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systems, including the primary command and data handling unit,
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as well as the thermal, the propulsion and power controllers
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all powered on and performed as expected.
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Great news. Right after successful
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propulsion systems activation, Peregrid entered a fully
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operational state. Unfortunately, an anomaly
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occurred which prevented Astrobotic from achieving a
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stable sun. Pointing orientation.
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So they have to make sure that they continue to get power on
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their way to the moon. So that's why the sun pointing
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orientation is is great because they have you know solar on
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their side there and the team is responding in real time as the
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situation unfolds and will be providing updates as data is
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obtained and analyzed. So couple hours go by, their
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teams did all the data crunching.
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Everything looks OK I guess, but they continued working
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throughout the day. That was a couple hours ago.
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Now we continue to gather data in a report, our best assessment
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of what we see. The team believes that the
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likely cause of the unstable sun pointing is a propulsion anomaly
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that, if proven true, threatens the ability of the spacecraft to
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soft. Land on the moon.
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So a hard landing on the moon is very bad.
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We don't want to see a hard landing on the moon.
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Hard landing on the moon basically means they crash into
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the moon, and that's not good for any sort of science that's
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supposed to happen. It's Astrobotic Lander now, as
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the team fights to troubleshoot the issues, spacecraft battery
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is reaching operational low levels.
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This is just a whirlwind of emotions here, I'm sure.
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With their team. Just before entering a known
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period of communication outage, the team developed and executed
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an improvised maneuver to reorient the sun, the solar
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panels, toward the Sun so they can get more power to the Lander
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as it's on its way to the moon. Shortly after this maneuver, the
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spacecraft entered an expected period of communication loss.
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So could you imagine if you're part of this team and you're
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pointing you have you have an anomaly where the the Lander
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can't point itself towards its power source.
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It needs power in order to do the operations on its way to the
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moon, right? It needs to charge the batteries
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and needs to do all the things on the way to the moon and make
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sure everything's, you know, cool.
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And then shortly after the maneuver, the spacecraft entered
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an experience period of communication loss.
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So after you fix this thing right afterwards, you don't know
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what's going on because there's no communication.
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Communication loss will provide more updates as Peregrine comes
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in view of the ground station again.
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So the over time you know there's certain ground stations
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that they have to communicate with here on Earth in order to
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send the data to the team so the team can make corrections or fix
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things on their way to the moon. So then a little bit of time
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happens, about an hour happens and they release this we've
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we've successfully re established communications with
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the Paragon after the known communication blackout.
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So this was the communication. Blackout was, of course, it was
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a known thing. They knew this was going to
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happen, this part of the mission.
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The team's improvised maneuver was successful in reorienting
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Peregrine solar array towards the sun.
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We're now charging the battery. So yes, good mission.
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Anomaly Board continues to evaluate the data we're
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receiving and is assessing the status of what we believe to be
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the root of the anomaly, a failure within the propulsion
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system. And that's what they said in the
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first tweet down here. Successful propulsion systems
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activation, Paragon entered a fully operational state.
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Unfortunately, an anomaly occurred which prevent an
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Astrobotic. So the propulsion.
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Orients things in space. So however you have to propel
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yourself to get to the certain point so the the solar panels
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can point towards the sun. That's what they needed to do
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and they figured it out as they went through the operation.
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Basically it's a it's a warning like hey, this thing's
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happening, it's bad. So how do we fix it?
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So their their team's got on it, they reoriented it, the the
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charger was starting was starting with the battery and
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the Anomaly board continued working on what happened.
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Going over the data, they basically have a bunch of data,
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thousands of lines of data. You have to crunch all that data
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in real time, mind you, because this isn't something that you
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can just put down, like grab a cup of coffee and go to Dunkin'
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Donuts, you know, and go for lunch or anything.
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No, this is like. You.
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Are right there because up until you fix this issue, you're not
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going anywhere. None of the team is leaving, so
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they have to do this. The Anomaly board is working on
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this super hard, evaluating the data and assessing the status of
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what. We believe to be the root.
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Of the anomaly a failure within the propulsion system.
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So if there's a failure. Within the propulsion system,
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then the soft landing may not occur.
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And if the soft landing doesn't occur, that means a hard landing
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will occur. If a hard landing occurs, they
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lose the whole thing. So if they lose the whole
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Lander, all the science that was on.
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Board, there's actually this part of this mission was sending
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people's ashes to the moon as well.
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So that's that's going to be lost as well.
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I mean, they'll get to the moon, but not the way they wanted to.
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So. So Astrobotic continues to go
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on. We are grateful for the
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outpouring of support we've received.
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From messages on social media to phone calls and helping hands,
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this one makes the space industry so special that we
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unite in the face of adversity. A heartfelt thank you from the
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entire Peregrine Mission One team, so Tori Bruno, ULA
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President in a tweet said. Hey, we're here for you.
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Whatever you need from the ULA team, we're open to help you
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out, figure out this, figure out what's going on.
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So the whole ULA team, super talented people, very
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intelligent, smart people, of course, like if they're there to
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help, they're there to help. So Astrobotic has the whole,
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like other teams from other companies, you know, like other
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people that may know something they don't know or may have some
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sort of insight that they might not catch up, you know, catch on
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to or whatever. They could get some help from
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outside sources. Everybody's helping basically
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because we want this thing to go to the moon, right?
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This is the first lunar Lander since basically the Apollo era,
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so US lunar Lander, I should say.
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So they want this thing to work. They want it to touch down on
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the moon softly, and they want to be able to do their mission
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because it's part of the Artemis program.
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And you know it it has some really important things for the
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Artemis program. To study the the lunar surface.
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Before people get there. Right, so let's move on to the
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next update, Update #4. It says.
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Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion
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system is causing a critical loss of propellant.
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The team is working to try and stabilize this loss, but given
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the situation, we have prioritized maximizing the
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science and data we can capture. So at this point seems like
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there's some seems like there's some sort of propellant failure.
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So what this means is they can't use the propellant to do what
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they need to do at this point. Team is working to stabilize the
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loss. Basically they have tanks with
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repellent in them. You know, if there's any sort of
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leak in their tanks or any sort of like gasket or anything,
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there's like little pieces of rubber that keep things in
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place. This is the.
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First launch of this thing too. This is an experimental craft,
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by the way, So this isn't this isn't a, you know, this isn't
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something that they've launched a bunch of them, you know, this
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is the first one and the only one.
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So what they're doing now is they're trying to figure out
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what else they can. Do on their way to the moon.
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On the way the moon to make sure that they get something out of
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this right they might I I don't know what the orbit right now I
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don't know. They should be.
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Set as far as going to the Moon is concerned, but what other
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missions can they succeed in on their way to the moon?
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It seems like according to this, you know the propulsion system
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is a critical loss of propellant, so all their
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propellant is. If it's critical, it means most
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of their propellant is probably gone, or a significant amount of
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their propellant has escaped, or something in the propulsion
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system somewhere got clogged up. So it seems like if they can
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maximize the way that the propellant is handled within the
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craft if there's a shut off valve of some sort that they
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can. I'm not sure how the structure
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is inside the the craft itself if there's fail safes with these
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things. With this particular Lander, not
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100% sure. Most times they do have some
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sort of fail safe, but it seems like what they've how they
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posted this is that they have a significant critical loss of
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propelling. And when it's, say, critical, it
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means it's gone, probably so, and there's no way to get it
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back and they probably can't recapture it.
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So they can use it to propel themselves to the moon or for a
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soft landing. So what do they do on the way
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there? And that's what they're figuring
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out now. We have prioritized maximizing
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the science and data we can capture.
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We're currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may
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be. Feasible at this time.
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So whatever they can do between now and when they when the
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mission is totally done, we don't know when that'll be, you
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know? As far as I know this is about
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an hour ago, so let me let me refresh this real quick, see if
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they had anything else. No, that's about about one hour
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ago is the last update. Let's see if they have anything
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on their website, maybe there's maybe they might have posted
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something on their website. So if that's the case now, it's
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still number. Four, we're currently assessing
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what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this
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time. So track the mission.
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I mean temperatures, radiation, things like that.
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Maybe. You know and the The thing is
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there might not be enough enough sensors to really do like a
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really in depth mission here. So yeah I'm not I'm not sure
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what they could do on the way like on their way out there.
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So yeah, it's it just seems like it's almost it's almost lost.
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At this point, which is unfortunate, So they also have,
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they also have a Griffin Lunar Lander.
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So the Peregrine Lander that we're talking about today is
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about the height of a human, so like.
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About four. Humans wide and like the height
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of like a normal person, like 58510 something like that.
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So maybe 6 feet tall some somewhere on there.
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So right now, the Peregrine Lander seems like it does have,
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might have some sort of, could probably do some sort of.
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I don't know what they could do. I mean to be honest with you to
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get to get some data they're going to have to update us with
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that. But it's going to be a, it's
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going to be a tough one. They have thermal controls in
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it. So like, of course they can,
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They can check the, you know, the heat in the.
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What's what's going on with the payloads?
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Things like that. So they have, they have the
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ability to monitor everything that's in there, but I don't
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know what. Else they could do other than
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getting into lunar orbit and figuring out what else they, you
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know, at this point like they're not going to land this thing.
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I don't think so. They're going to get into.
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Like a lunar orbit, Lunar orbit 2, lunar orbit 3.
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They're going to get really close.
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To the moon, hopefully. And then maybe they're going to,
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I mean, if they do crash this in the moon, maybe they could get
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some valuable data about moon like lunar entry, but if they
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don't have the propellant to make it.
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Even feasible to do a soft landing.
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Why would they? I mean, I don't know.
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Why would they crash it into the moon?
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Yeah? So it's a it's a tough thing.
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For the, for the. Astrobotics team just tucking it
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back into Earth is foolish. Yeah.
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I mean they could if they have enough propellants.
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So that's the other thing too is if they Yeah shifter that's a
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that's a great. That's a great point if they
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just like burn it back up in the atmosphere into the Earth's
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atmosphere, it seems like it would be a very unless there's
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no hope for it, you know, if they if they can't collect any
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more data. And if there's nothing else they
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can do with it, probably that might be their best bet.
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Because you don't really want to crash a bunch of stuff on the
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moon. You don't want to litter up the
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moon. Yeah, data is much data
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gathering. Yeah, Simon, I agree with you.
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Data gathering, you know, just do as much get all the data
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because even though we have Artemis 2 going up soon, we had.
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Artemis one which collected a bunch of data, went around the
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moon, came back. Artemis 2 will have sent people.
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And of course there's other sensors on Artemis 2.
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But this is the first US Lander with with enough sensors that it
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could gather some data on the way to the moon.
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So we're trying to gather. I'm also trying to gather some
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data about the sensors. So.
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Maybe you know. Whatever they can do to flood it
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with data, I guess before before they do, what are they going to
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do with this thing? Like maybe they have enough
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propellant to send it over the ocean and burn up back in the
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Earth's atmosphere. Or send it in a, you know, a
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solar orbit, you know, something like send it towards the sun.
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I mean, that would be kind of cool too.
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You know there's a high gain antenna on it, so there's a
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possibility they can just send it towards the sun and just
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continue. Just what?
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Get as much data as you can on the way to the sun.
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Be like, hey, you know what? We're not a lunar Lander
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anymore, we're a Sunlander. But.
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We're not going to land. We're just going to burn up.
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So it's a it's tough, you know what do you guys think in chat?
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Let me know in chat what you guys think what the what the
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mission could. Be.
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From here on out, because there's so many things that
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could be doing right now. There's so much, there's so many
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like sort of side. Requests that they could do now
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Data gathering at best. Simon Yeah, it's already on its
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way to the moon, right? Or is it an Earth's orbit?
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Right now it's on its way. Let me check the the data real
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quick, see if I can find some data about the.
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The initial few hours of this mission, because it launched
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early this morning, I was going to stream it and like do a live,
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you know, live watch along, but it was like 1:30 in the morning
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when the. You know when it all started.
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So I would have been dead tired. So that's one of the reasons why
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I didn't do it last night. It's like, man, I got, I got so
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much stuff to do, so I couldn't, I couldn't do that.
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OK, so here I'm getting some data as far as their orbits and
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things. So trying to figure out where
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they are right now, like tracking where they are right
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now. So you know of course anything
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that goes to the to the moon as well is very contamination
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controlled. So if they do end up crashing it
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out of the surface of the moon, there's more than likely no way
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for it to contaminate the moon with, say, like organisms.
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Of some sort. Could it study radiation near
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Earth radiation? Yeah, I mean that that's you
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know some radiation would be nice because if there is some
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radiation, I should say some radiation studies would be nice
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because if they do study the radiation properly, they could
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send some data back-to-back to NASA, even though NASA has ton
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of data on the stuff already. But the Van Allen belt, things
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like that versus magnetic field. I don't know if.
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They have things on there for the magnetic field, but probably
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radiation, Yeah, I'm not sure. Interplanetary.
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OK, so there's a little bit of information here.
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Interplanetary radiation environment occurs in the region
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outside the shielding effects of Earth's magnetic field.
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An ionizing dosage of one rad per day is predicted there based
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on the expected electron radiation per Earth Day.
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So. If they could.
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An ionized dosage of one rad per day is predicated or predicted.
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Sorry. So if they could just get some.
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Math on that that would. Be kind of cool too.
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Figure out what the. Radiation is as well, yeah, it
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seems like. Seems like they have a little
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bit of information, but I don't know what else.
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What else could we do here? Because I'm not 100%.
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But what kind of instruments they have on board that could do
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something in between here and the moon?
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You know debs. I like that hit the hit the
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thumbs up hit the like. Please wonder if it shows up on
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sat tracker sites I checked earlier Shifter.
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And I didn't see it, but it might.
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Be debs 43 freaking. Months.
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You got to get some starships. For that one you.
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Got to get some. Starship launches, so we're here
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to, we're here to discuss and we're also here to talk about
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any news that happens. And we're also here.
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To you know we're here to kind of have fun and enjoy ourselves
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too so and just talk as friends, you know.
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So you know if you have any ideas.
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I think, I think this is the great forum for those kind of
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ideas and we're going to continue with this coverage as
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you know as it happens. So Astrobotic, I'm just going
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to, you know, they usually give updates every hour, so.
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Yeah, this is the one. This is the the the ex post
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tweet right there. I don't know.
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Oh, no. Oh no.
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Oh. No, that's even.
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That's even sadder. You can't do that.
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Astrobotic, please. Yeah, I hope.
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I hope they figure it out, though.
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I hope they figure out something.
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Debs, thanks for the Super chat too.
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Thank you. Super sticker.
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Whatever that one that is. Thank you for that.
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Why aren't you? Getting any starships here?
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What's going on? I set them up.
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I'm sorry, Debs. You don't get any starships
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today. No Starship launches for you.
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I I appreciate it, but I I can't figure out why it's.
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I also have a I'm having an anomaly on my in my.
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Studio too. So there we go.
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Anomalies all around. Everybody cheers to the
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anomalies. It's water, by the way.
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And they only drink water. Yeah, the propulsion system's
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gone. They can't land on the moon.
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Critical loss of propellant. What can they do on the way
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there? That's what they're working on
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right now. Like, what could they do on
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their way there? So that's where we're at right
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now. Debs, do you get some rockets?
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Yes, you do. You get some starships.
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Let's see 149 Super chat we'll give you because you've been a
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member of the channel for so long.
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Debs, I got to give you at least 5 starships for that one.
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Landed out an asteroid tank. Man, that sounds interesting.
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I don't think it'll be able to land though, because their.
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Propulsion system's down, so unfortunately, that might.
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Be. I mean, crashing into an
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asteroid would probably be a better way to say that if they
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if they don't have propellant, that's the that's the problem
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with that. They don't have propellant right
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now. The propellant system, the
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propulsion system's completely down.
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So you never you never know what they're capable.
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Of but take that I I agree with your thinking.
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I agree with your thinking. I think it's a it.
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It would be a great idea to set it off towards an asteroid if
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they could figure out the trajectory of.
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The Lander and if they have enough propellant to get it to
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the right spot, but I don't know if they do you know we're not
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we're not very we don't have all the information about that right
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now and I'm sorry about the cluster of this stream right now
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too. I put this together like and so
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as Deb says. Pro Streamer.
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I've been doing this for four years on this channel.
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I'm totally dedicated to the channel, but I wasn't ready for
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this, so anything that looks a little bit wonky, it was.
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It wasn't thrown together, but it was was put together very
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quickly. So I just have a bunch of blocks
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around so we I could get as much information out there as
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possible. So this isn't usually what this
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what the show. Looks like it looks a little bit
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better than this, but I wasn't ready for this.
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So we have, we have what we, you know, we have, we got what we
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got, right. So yeah, right now.
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Right now we got, I don't know what can we do, what can we?
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Do at this point, let me put this down a little bit.
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Yeah, what? How?
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What can they do to? Make the situation because you
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don't want to go into like you don't want to have a mission
25:01
that's going to be cool. We launched on a rocket and we
25:06
got a little bit of data we could we could reorient.
25:08
Things, right? That's cool.
25:12
And then you can get some more data from your from your solar
25:16
systems and things like that, your solar panels and then what
25:20
kind of science and data you can do?
25:22
What kind of stuff can you maximize during your mission?
25:25
That's a tough one, man. That's so tough because it seems
25:30
like it would be a like a given that they would already be doing
25:35
these things on their way to the moon.
25:37
But also these systems are like they're very specific.
25:41
Some of these systems are very specific like they they take X
25:43
amount of power and that's it. Like they can't do more power
25:48
than that on their way to the moon because they have to save
25:50
this power and because they're charging a certain amount on
25:54
their way to the moon and they have to use certain systems
25:55
certain times and hit these key, you know these these marks
26:00
basically on their way to the moon.
26:02
And then when they get them to the moon they have to use X
26:06
amount of power to land and propulse propulsive landing.
26:10
So what can they it's kind of like.
26:13
Divert the power. The to the thrusters or to like
26:16
the Shields, You know, like in Star Trek or whatever.
26:20
You know, give it your all or whatever.
26:21
You know, it seems like that's where they're at right now.
26:24
Like how do we how do we get the most out of this mission?
26:28
But it's going to be it's going to be tough because it it's just
26:34
kind. It's just a bummer, man.
26:36
Set it off after Starman Info guide.
26:39
I agree with you. That would be cool.
26:41
That'd be that'd be very cool. Like see if you can catch
26:43
Starman on in the Roadster. I think that that would be
26:48
pretty interesting. But given the situation, we have
26:52
prioritized the Max. We have prioritized maximizing
26:55
the science and data we can capture.
26:57
We're currently assessing the alternative mission profiles.
27:01
Maybe. Feasible at this time, so.
27:02
The the other thing is how do you how do you go to a mission
27:09
like this and like? You you put your.
27:12
Heart and soul under these missions, these people put their
27:14
heart and souls into these missions.
27:16
They've been working on this for years.
27:18
You know, they they've gone. So it's not like everybody
27:22
involved with these missions just gets a job and then starts
27:24
making stuff for space, right? Like, you have to be building
27:29
your career for years in order to to do this, right?
27:33
So there's a possibility some of these people have been working
27:37
in these systems and working for other companies and things for
27:41
like decades. You know, very veteran people
27:44
that have been working on these systems for decades and you
27:47
spent the last years of your life building this thing.
27:52
And you're on your way to the moon.
27:54
You know, you have a perfect launch ULA.
27:56
Perfect launch. And I was surprised that.
28:00
I mean, I wasn't surprised that the ULA launch usually the ULA.
28:02
Launches are great. But I was surprised that the new
28:07
rocket. Never, never did it.
28:09
Before. It was the.
28:10
You know and their first tweet here UL as Vulcan rocket.
28:14
Of course, like new engines and everything.
28:17
Never tested. Like to go to go to space?
28:21
First launch ever works perfectly, sends the, sends the
28:25
Lander off to the moon, and then the Lander has issues.
28:29
So there's people that were working on the Lander all like,
28:32
for their whole life, you know, working on their part of it.
28:37
Whatever it is. And maybe you know, there are
28:39
new people as well. So maybe you're, you know, you
28:41
get into the company late or, you know, maybe you just
28:44
graduate college or whatever. Or you're like a Wiz.
28:47
Kid, you get out of high school and you're just like pretty good
28:50
at this stuff. You should hire me.
28:51
And then they get a contract from NASA.
28:55
You know, it's just, it's a whole thing.
28:56
So instead of, you know, thinking about it like a robot,
29:00
it's not the robot that we think about, it's the people that put
29:02
their their lives into this thing.
29:07
I think, and I think this is a fable I want, I I want to say
29:10
this is real, but I think it's probably not real.
29:13
But there's a story. I think it's Van Gogh, Vincent
29:16
van Gogh, the artist that he was sitting in A and I think this is
29:20
totally fake. I thought like probably fake,
29:23
but he was sitting in a a park like sketching something or
29:29
painting or something and somebody walked up to him and
29:32
said, oh, you're Vincent van Gogh, the famous artist guy.
29:34
And he goes, yes, that's me. And then they say, hey, can you,
29:38
can you draw me something? And then Vincent van Gogh drew
29:42
them one line in the in the park, like just a squiggly line.
29:48
But the guy was like, that's it, just one line.
29:53
And Van Gogh looked at him and said in a paraphrasing here
29:58
because nobody really knows if this happened.
30:02
Vincent van Gogh goes like. Yeah, it took me my whole life.
30:06
To learn how to draw that line, just like that.
30:09
So these people that are working on these systems, Peregrine
30:14
Mission systems, they've been working their whole lives to get
30:18
to this point to send their robotic Lander to the moon.
30:23
And if it doesn't make it, it's going to be heartbreaking.
30:28
It's so sad. It's going to be so sad for
30:29
everybody involved, but also for the the overall Space Flight
30:33
community. Because we all want this thing
30:35
to land like I you know, as much as there's tribalism and.
30:39
Weird, like, people are weird, right?
30:42
And I'm going off in a little tangent, but we'll get back to
30:44
Paragon in a second. Because you know, when people
30:48
are weird and they they talk about, you know, X company
30:53
versus Y company or whatever. No, it's not like that.
30:58
Like you want to make sure that every launch provider is good.
31:04
When you want every mission to succeed, you know, as they say
31:07
or as they used to say, I don't know if anybody says it anymore,
31:09
but like hashtag team space, like that's a real thing.
31:12
People are really invested in each other's.
31:17
You know in. Each other's success.
31:19
So right here with this tweet, Peregrine Systems Peregrine
31:24
Lander from Astrobotic. We're grateful for the
31:26
outpouring of support we're receiving from messages on
31:28
social media to. Phone calls and helping hands.
31:31
So. Everybody in the industry.
31:33
Has reached out to them and said.
31:34
Go, go, go. Let's, like, please make this
31:37
work somehow. We have everything.
31:39
We're at your disposal, Astrobotic, so they know how
31:43
important this is. To get people back to the moon
31:47
and to get Landers back to the moon.
31:49
So, you know, it's the it's the years and years of dedication
31:53
and you know the. Systems that they build.
31:56
It's great, you know, but. It's about the people at the at
32:02
the other end, you know, that are doing this.
32:04
So yeah, it's. Of course, people.
32:08
Are going to help them out? It it seems like it's a no
32:10
brainer, right? Like people are going to help
32:12
them out. It's a NASA mission like.
32:14
Who wouldn't want to help? NASA out, right?
32:16
Like, of course, like anything that.
32:18
I mean, I can't do anything for them because I'm not a I'm not a
32:20
rocket scientist. I'm not a not an engineer.
32:22
I don't. I don't make lunar Landers.
32:27
But I can at least, you know share some information with you
32:30
and like keep you updated, do what?
32:32
Do my part which is like just do this, like have a little podcast
32:36
kind of situation about it. So yeah, so that's the like as
32:42
of right now, Astrobotic, they haven't posted anything in about
32:46
an hour. So it's going to be, it's going
32:53
to be a story that's going to be.
32:54
Developing throughout the day. So we're I'm going to keep you
32:59
updated as much as I can with that sort of situation, Info
33:05
Guide said. Like Starling said, like they
33:06
need to start mass producing a Lander with a standard set of
33:09
equipment and instruments on them, send 20 plus of them to
33:12
different locations on the moon. That would be pretty.
33:16
Cool. Actually, it's a great idea.
33:19
How can you do that to scale? Can make money on it, though,
33:25
because these are commercial Landers like NASA hired
33:27
Astrobotic to do this Lander for them.
33:30
NASA didn't build this Lander. It's a NASA mission.
33:33
But Astrobotic built the Lander. How do you do that to scale and
33:38
make money? Because NASA will be your only
33:41
client mainly. But I I think what they're doing
33:47
and I what they are doing with the Artemis.
33:49
Program and other programs from around the world are they're
33:53
trying to make a lunar economy. So whether it's shuttling things
33:58
to the moon or people to the moon or, you know, getting data
34:02
and science from and to the moon, they're trying to build
34:05
that out right now. The infrastructure for that Blue
34:07
Origins doing a SpaceX is doing all the other companies doing
34:09
Astrobotic, etcetera. They're all doing it, and maybe
34:13
that's a maybe that's a good idea.
34:15
Info guides to make this like make a a standard, sort of like
34:19
foundational. Template for some of these
34:24
Landers, like a Starlink like you said.
34:28
Yeah, that. That would be.
34:29
That's a really great idea actually.
34:32
So and then you know you can lease that technology or
34:36
whatever if you get the, you know if you get the foundation
34:39
of it. You get the framework.
34:41
I understand this because I as a so I'm a I've been a coder for,
34:48
I don't know, 15 years. So I understand the use of a
34:52
foundation or some sort of template to start with, right?
34:57
And then basically you know, you build upon this, the open
35:01
source, whatever that you're building on, you know, whether
35:04
back in the day it was Bootstrap or Foundation or you know React
35:07
GS now or you know whatever it is.
35:09
Somebody builds the. Foundation for these things.
35:11
And then other people build upon that foundation and just send
35:15
stuff. Just send it, man, to send it to
35:17
the moon. And then what you do with it is
35:19
up to you. So of course you have to make a
35:23
business out of it so you can make money so you can feed your
35:25
families and all that stuff and pay your rent and insurance and
35:29
what send your kids to college whatever.
35:31
But the I think that's a that's a phenomenal idea.
35:37
I wonder. I'll have to look into this a
35:39
little bit, but there's got to be somebody out there who'd be
35:42
willing to do that work and then open source it for everybody to
35:47
use. And to say this is how you build
35:50
it and here's all the specs go crazy, you know, like go for it
35:56
dude. And then people would start
35:58
building on it, I think. That's what, blue.
35:59
Origin is kind of doing too. They want to build a framework
36:02
and a foundation for everything else.
36:05
But I I think. There is an opportunity there
36:10
for somebody to do this, but it seems like there's a lot of
36:13
money that could be, it could be.
36:16
Like changing hands, too Brag. You call me live.
36:21
I know, right? Last couple times I've done
36:23
this, I'm like, where's Bob at? But yeah, it's tough because
36:27
today was a weird one because it's just all over the place.
36:32
Peregrine Lander, I think we lost her.
36:36
And I think, I think think it's gone.
36:38
They're going to get as much data as they can.
36:39
And then there's going there's no propulsion system.
36:43
Causing a critical loss of propellant.
36:45
No propellant in that thing. So I think we're going to, I
36:47
think we're going to lose this thing just.
36:49
How do we? Lose it.
36:50
And how much can we gain from it before we lose it?
36:53
That's the question. So if you're a fan of SpaceX and
36:56
you're a fan of the Starship program, you kind of know what
36:59
this is all about. You set up a test like you set
37:02
up a Starship, and whatever it is, any data you gather from it
37:06
is good data. Unfortunately this was a NASA
37:10
mission, so they had some NASA, you know, NASA criteria that
37:13
they. Were supposed to meet, but NASA
37:15
also knows, and everybody involved with this knows, that
37:18
it's not. Going to be.
37:20
Perfect every time, and they know that there's a a.
37:22
Huge. Risk every time.
37:23
You just go for it. You know when it's a calculated
37:27
risk. And you know these.
37:29
Systems A back and forth. You you've been working on them
37:32
for years. But you know.
37:34
There's that slight risk that the propulsion system could go
37:37
bad. Critical loss of propellant.
37:40
And they're trying to stabilize that loss.
37:42
But yeah, it's it's a it's a sad day for Astrobotic and for the
37:48
Space Flight community. Start sending blocks of ice and
37:51
some dirt that can grow stuff. Oh.
37:54
Some tents too, you want to send that?
37:56
To the moon. So you could send blocks of ice.
38:01
Well, there's already ice on the moon, though, so could we just
38:04
land? I mean, that's what Artemis is
38:06
doing. They're just landing where the
38:07
ice is, but. Maybe not tents.
38:12
Maybe you need something a little bit more, you know, more,
38:15
a little bit thicker than a tent if NASA funds a project.
38:21
Don't they own the intellectual property?
38:22
Rights. In some instances yes, but if
38:27
you have a commercial program. So say if.
38:33
Like a really good example, they're using a a SpaceX
38:36
Starship to land on the moon. For Artemis 3 and they will not
38:41
own the intellectual property rights for that Starship ever.
38:47
The SpaceX zones, those intellectual property rights.
38:52
Why did they don't use nuclear? Batteries, Andre says.
38:56
That's a really difficult question to answer, but it's
39:02
also a question that needs to be asked because I like that
39:09
nuclear propulsion is something that they're actually working on
39:12
right now. There's another they're they're
39:14
trying to figure out systems for a nuclear powered propulsion
39:18
system for a NASA rocket. But the reason why most NASA
39:22
rockets or other rockets aren't nuclear propulsed is because
39:28
it's not 100% safe. Like, say, if something happens
39:33
during a like a nuclear rocket launch and the whole thing, you
39:38
know, just doesn't work, you know a Rudd on the pad is.
39:42
Really. Bad is very, very bad.
39:45
So if they can guarantee that nothing's going to happen to
39:49
that propulsion system if it's nuclear, then.
39:52
They might get public support, but people are.
39:54
Afraid of it. Like that's part of it.
39:56
Like that's part of it, so. Yeah, that's the it's it's a
40:01
it's a tough sell for people. Basically your product would be
40:10
the. Lander, no instruments, and then
40:11
you license and sell individual instrument spots.
40:14
Oh. Someone wants to send a stuffed
40:17
animal if they buy a slut, make mount, make a mount for it.
40:21
That's what like Astrobotic actually had some this Paragon
40:26
Lander. Let me see if I can find their
40:27
page on that their payload page. Let's see so we can take a look
40:34
at it. Cuz they have a whole.
40:36
Plan your mission thing, Yeah, they have a whole thing where?
40:46
You just like go through a. Like the structure of the.
40:51
Power. Communications, propulsion,
40:54
don't want to talk about that right now.
40:57
Payload, accommodations, programs, interface options
40:59
accommodate a wide range of payload types on a single
41:02
mission from companies, government, universities,
41:04
nonprofits and individuals. They have an above deck views of
41:08
the horizon in the sky, below deck views of the lunar surface
41:12
and enclosure deck proximity to the lunar surface.
41:14
So they have some, they have some spots on their on their in
41:21
their payloads, the decks that are for different things, so 90
41:25
kilogram payload Max are mass capacity and they have a lunar
41:29
Lander user guide which is pretty intense and very, very
41:35
large. So you know you do a a services
41:40
agreement, you integrate your stuff into their into their
41:43
Lander. So it's it's similar to what you
41:46
were saying, small class Lander that precisely and safely
41:50
delivers payload to lunar orbit and lunar surface payloads can
41:53
be mounted above or below the decks, inside or outside of
41:55
enclosures and can remain attached or deployed according
41:59
to their. Needs.
42:01
So if you need to deploy something you know you can
42:06
mount. What if you?
42:08
Just bought a GoPro and you're like, hey, can you send this
42:11
GoPro to the moon? Yeah, maybe not.
42:15
You mean a GoPro probably wouldn't work because you're
42:17
never going to get the footage back.
42:19
Maybe if you. Have some sort of other camera
42:22
system involved. You know, build your own space
42:26
camera, basically. That might be.
42:31
That would be a neat actual way to send a payload.
42:34
It's like semi. It's kind of light, yeah.
42:45
Every, every no makes you closer to a yes.
42:48
And every right is one step closer to a mission complete.
42:50
Yes. Yep.
42:52
The Lander would be a service that makes sense, yeah.
42:55
Armando says at 2:15 PM Eastern Time, DNS Canberra.
43:00
Canberra was receiving telemetry at 8 kilobytes a second.
43:03
Lumberger seems to have stopped around 1920 UTC.
43:07
Oh, oh. Yeah, that's not good.
43:14
That's not good. Where did you get that data from
43:17
Armando is that That's not from their Twitter, is it?
43:24
Let's see. Just so I can.
43:27
I just want to take a look at it and see if keep that as a as a
43:30
source of information as well. Tree Spire mass production makes
43:35
things cheap and also works out bugs to the point where chances
43:38
of success would skyrocket literally skyrocket.
43:42
Wink, But yeah, it's it's iterative design as well.
43:47
Mass production iterative iterative design.
43:50
You make things better every single time.
43:54
Like you have a version one, then you have a version 20.
43:56
You know, eventually once you figure out what's the best way
43:59
to do this, I know if they lost telemetry data.
44:04
That would be. Heartbreaking, Armando.
44:06
So as somebody who understands. The the cost of this not only in
44:17
dollars and cents and you know, like real money, but the cost of
44:23
putting together teams and systems and being, you know.
44:28
I I was the boss like I was the the lead developer of a bunch of
44:34
projects for a couple companies. And I know how hard it is to put
44:38
these teams together and what they go through, what these
44:40
people go through. So I understand the late nights
44:45
and I understand working for months on end to get one tiny
44:50
thing perfect and then it if something fails, you know that
44:55
that's just a it's a horrible thing to go through.
45:00
Yeah, I I really hope they can figure out some other science to
45:05
do, because at this point it seems like.
45:10
They may have lost. The the Lander, we can't use
45:14
them. Once they're, then we can sell
45:16
them. Yeah, I mean, if the.
45:17
So that's a that's a really great idea.
45:19
I like the idea of a reusable, maybe not reusable, but a
45:23
reusable system. Like a systems are something
45:27
that everybody could kind of tap into for Landers eventually.
45:32
You know, a framework for people to.
45:34
Use, you know. Like, kind of like a car frame,
45:37
you know, But you send it to the moon or you send it out into,
45:40
you know, space someplace, but. That would be.
45:44
That would be. Really great way to scale this
45:46
economy. It's like, hey, we have this
45:48
thing, we know it works because we've launched it a few times,
45:52
come on board, but that's how people make money.
45:55
Like that's the business of having Landers and that's the,
45:59
that's the business of like the outer space business, you know
46:02
the Space Flight business is. We have a platform that you can
46:05
use. To send something somewhere like
46:08
That's why rocket companies exist.
46:11
ULA exists like that SpaceX Falcon 9, like Falcon 9, is a
46:14
platform for people to send things to the.
46:17
You know to low Earth orbit and beyond so send people up to the
46:21
ISS etcetera. But that's like, you know, if
46:27
they could, if they could figure out a way to, I mean like.
46:29
Not open source or rocket because that would be insane,
46:31
but open source platform for for Landers would be really neat and
46:38
that people could build on it, you know, And I'm sure there's
46:40
things like that in the industry, you know, in the
46:44
engineering side of it, you know, like they know what things
46:47
work and what things don't work, so they can build on those
46:50
things. But if somebody were to build
46:51
like, here's the Lander legs, here's the platform, here's the
46:55
structure. We're going to give you all the.
46:59
Plans and you just go wild with it.
47:01
So just open source it would be insane, would be so crazy or you
47:07
know whatever fee you know like a like residual.
47:13
Fee would be pretty cool too. We're getting into the business
47:15
of it. But Peregrine is one of those
47:19
companies that got hired by NASA to send stuff to the moon,
47:22
because they do have a platform for that.
47:24
The Peregrine Lander is a platform for NASA.
47:29
Yeah. Sounds Michael Maxey.
47:31
Hey, what's up, Mike? It sounds like Air Cerbotics has
47:34
to use the maneuvering system. To.
47:36
Reorient peregrine for solar charging.
47:38
By doing so, they may have drifted off trajectory for lunar
47:41
interface. That's what I've heard.
47:42
Yeah, yeah, they may. They seem like they they
47:48
reoriented towards the sun, which is great because then they
47:52
can get power, they can get their batteries charged.
47:56
But by doing so, their propulsion system has been it's
48:00
critical loss of propellant. It's totally malfunctioned and
48:03
they can't get it back. So yeah, it seems like maybe
48:09
this mission may be done. And it's unfortunate.
48:12
El Hungaro, thank you so much for the Super chat.
48:16
You're amazing if you want your name on the screen.
48:18
And you also want Starships to launch with your name on the
48:22
screen? Let me know by giving me a Super
48:25
chat or a Super sticker and you'll get that.
48:28
I can make it bigger, actually, because it's more fun.
48:31
Let's make your name bigger. There we go.
48:39
Got to make it like a cool color too eventually.
48:43
Yeah, what a sweet. Landing, by the way.
48:48
So I got to give a shout out to my to my homie Carl for this.
48:54
For hooking this up and making this for me.
48:56
So shout out to Carl for that. Good buddy, good old buddy.
49:02
But yeah, I I, I, you know, all kind of, you know this up a
49:10
little bit so you can see the landing.
49:11
There you go. Hit a little Lander.
49:14
All business aside, I think Peregrine is like the Lander may
49:21
be lost and Astrobotic is figuring out how to do as much
49:27
science as they can gather as much data as they can.
49:30
There's no real updates at this point that unless they post
49:34
something with them that nothing yet failure as of right now.
49:39
So yeah, thanks L Hungaro again. Thanks Debs again for the Super
49:45
chats and for the how many months.
49:47
Was that debs? 43 months.
49:49
Man, that's crazy. Thank you.
49:55
Yeah. So Peru, the Peregrine Lander
50:00
looks like it may be lost, so we're waiting on more
50:05
information about that. Unfortunately they've done
50:10
everything they can to to try to get this back on track but
50:16
they've lost propellant in the propulsion system.
50:19
So seems like the seems like we lost her.
50:27
So there's a few things on the Astrobotic scientific payload.
50:32
Let's see what what we have in here laser reflector array.
50:36
So let me ask this to you Chad. So as I go through these parts
50:40
of these payloads, let me know what you think about them using
50:44
these because if they can't use their their normal mission,
50:48
which is landing on the moon and using these, what could they use
50:51
these for? Let me take a drink because
50:55
talking for 45 minutes hurts my throat.
50:58
Oh, they have a they have a laser retro reflector array.
51:02
The LRA provides marker for future assets to determine
51:08
precise locations. So basically they're going to
51:10
land this thing on the moon and then they're going to use it to
51:14
reflect lasers. And let's see, this enables
51:18
precision laser ranging, which is a measurement of the distance
51:21
between the orbiting or landing spacecraft to the LRA on the
51:24
Lander. LRA is a passive optical
51:26
instrument and will function as a permanent fiducial, IE
51:30
location marker on the moon for decades to come.
51:34
That's probably not going to. Make it to.
51:36
The Moon neutron spectrometer system, the NSS instrument.
51:41
Let me see if I can bring this up for you.
51:43
So we can actually do this together.
51:46
Let's see here. Let's see here.
51:50
Get this over here and then I'll bring this up.
51:52
Give me like 2 seconds here while we do this and we'll get
51:55
that back. There we go.
51:58
These are reflector array. We already went through that.
52:01
That's not gonna work because it has to be on the moon surface
52:03
and they can't really just jettison it into space and use
52:05
it. Neutron spectrometer system will
52:08
determine the abundance of hydrogen bearing materials and
52:11
the bulk regulith composition at the landing site, so that's out
52:15
of the question. Let me zoom in a little bit on
52:17
this one. Linear Energy Transfer
52:22
Spectrometer. During the exploration missions
52:25
outside of the Earth's protective atmosphere, exposure
52:27
to space radiation has a detrimental effect on the health
52:30
of astronauts. Lunar surface environments
52:33
present a greater radiation risk to the astronaut than low Earth
52:35
orbit. These are.
52:37
New source of radiation risk for lunar surface environments.
52:40
The first source of risk is the total radiation dose from
52:43
galactic cosmic rays is about twice as high on the lunar
52:47
surface as low Earth orbit A radiation sensor.
52:50
Maybe. Maybe they can activate this
52:54
while there's, you know, flying in whatever configuration
52:59
they're doing right now. So let me know in the chat if
53:03
you think that might be a good idea, if they can like measure
53:05
the radiation. Debs.
53:09
Bob Brink says Debs congratulations on the hanging
53:11
tough for so many months. I know Debs is a trooper.
53:14
All the things remember Debs. So if you're new to the channel,
53:18
thank you for tuning. In by the way, and if you've.
53:20
Been here for a while. I love you.
53:22
I couldn't do this without you. And also I love you people who
53:24
are just joining me, so thank you.
53:27
For for being part. Of this and thanks for
53:29
subscribing and liking the video really helps too.
53:31
And all the Super chats and everything really really helped
53:33
me continue to do this channel. Continue to do commentary on
53:36
late breaking. You know critical missions like
53:40
this the a mission that may be lost in space.
53:45
So yeah, if they if they can get this together hopefully they
53:50
won't lose everything. But can we get to a?
53:53
100 likes. Let's try this.
53:54
Can we get to a? 100 likes.
53:55
We have 91, now we need 9 more. Gene Roddenberry is boldly
54:01
hanging. Wait.
54:02
Is boldly. Wait.
54:02
Hold on. This moved up.
54:03
Boldly going where no one has gone before.
54:05
Oof. I'm just a newbie.
54:08
Oh, Bob braked. Are you tied with Debs with 43.
54:12
Oh, it's a tie. Debs and Bob together.
54:16
Dang. Nice.
54:19
That's awesome. I don't know.
54:21
You were around for 43 months. That's incredible.
54:25
That's incredible. Thank you so much for that, Bob.
54:28
That's amazing. I knew you'd been around for a
54:29
long time, but I didn't know it was that long.
54:32
El Hangaro says thank you. Yeah.
54:33
I love you too, man. Baby.
54:35
Bob. Yeah.
54:36
So, yeah, without all of your continued support, I couldn't do
54:40
this. We're over 100 likes, by the
54:41
way. Overhun likes.
54:42
We're at 107. So.
54:46
So going back to the the thing over here on this other screen I
54:50
have Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer.
54:53
The let's seems Like it gathers radiation information for the
54:59
flight, so maybe they could turn this thing on on their way to
55:06
wherever they're gonna end up. I mean they.
55:09
Lost telemetry data possibly at this point too.
55:14
So maybe it's a radiation sensor.
55:18
Maybe they could. Turn it on.
55:19
Lead Developing Development Organization, NASA.
55:24
Yeah, JSC, So maybe, I mean they're going to, of course
55:28
they're working with NASA right now to get this probably to
55:31
figure out all the systems and what they could use to get as
55:34
much data as possible from this thing.
55:36
It may be lost. So latest news is that maybe
55:40
they lost telemetry data for this.
55:43
So the next one is the Near Infrared Volatile Spectrometer
55:48
system will measure surface and subsurface hydration.
55:52
On the moon? If they don't make it to the
55:54
moon, they can't use this, unfortunately.
55:59
Yeah, So reflectors are used to precisely measure the distance
56:03
to the moon. They fire telemetry laser from a
56:05
telescope somewhere in Texas. Oh, that's a that's a really
56:08
interesting I didn't know they were doing it from Texas.
56:13
So one of the one of. The numerous places I've lived
56:15
for Space Flight here, I'm moving actually back.
56:19
I'm moving closer to NASA for this channel.
56:23
So I couldn't do it without your help I we moved.
56:28
Me, Which is which is? Funny, we all did it.
56:32
We all moved me like all of your.
56:34
Support. Moved me to Starbase for about a
56:42
year, so couldn't do it without you.
56:44
And now I'm going down towards NASA.
56:46
I I don't want to, I don't want to jinx anything yet because I'm
56:49
I'm moving there next week, so. Yeah, it's crazy.
56:54
It's crazy. So it's pretty cool.
56:57
With your help, of course. So any likes?
57:00
If, you're if. You want to do that?
57:01
That's cool. Super Sticker super chats really
57:03
help for the trip. Peregrine Ion Trap Mass
57:06
Spectrometer characterize the lunar axisphere after descent
57:12
and landing and throughout the lunar day to understand the
57:14
release and movement of volatile species.
57:18
The previous missions had demonstrated the presence of
57:21
volatiles at the lunar surface, but significant questions
57:23
remaining about the where those volatiles came from and how
57:27
they're transported across the lunar surface.
57:31
Maybe, but it says characterize the lunar exosphere after
57:35
descent and landing. After descent and landing.
57:39
See, it's all, it all really is kind of when they get there,
57:45
everything is kind of when they get there somewhere in Texas.
57:49
All right. Yeah.
57:53
And that's it. That's all we have so far is I
57:57
think we can do some, yeah, that I think that's all we got.
58:08
We got the the laser array, we have the radiate.
58:14
I think all we can do is radiation.
58:15
I think that's all we can do. Do we need a GoFundMe?
58:19
Or are you PayPal? Oh, I have a GoFundMe for that.
58:22
Funny you should ask. Funny you should ask, Bob.
58:27
Let me, let me get those details.
58:30
So I think all they can do at this point is the is the
58:37
radiation. I think that's all they can
58:38
study for real. Like I don't know if they can
58:40
really do anything else. Other than that.
58:42
Maybe I mean with the. The instrumentation they have on
58:48
board, of course they're collecting data for telemetry
58:50
data and things like that, but I don't think they're doing
58:55
anything other than their normal systems, if that makes sense.
59:06
Yeah, other than the normal systems, so Starbase Studio
59:12
Three right there, so if you want to.
59:16
Check that out, That'll help. For the move I just set that up.
59:20
So I just set that up. I started setting it up like 5
59:22
days ago or five or six days ago or whatever and I just didn't
59:26
have information about timelines and stuff.
59:28
But it happened really quick. I have an opportunity.
59:31
So the other opportunity is and I can't, you know it's it's
59:40
personal too. So it's kind of it's it's a
59:46
cool. Thing to happen.
59:47
OK, so I had a plan to move towards NASA sometime in this
59:55
year. In 2024.
59:56
I had a plant, I was going to save a bunch of money, move
59:59
towards NASA, any you know somewhere down there and somehow
1:00:06
it sort of happened. But, and I, and I want to be
1:00:13
honest with you because I've always been honest with
1:00:15
everybody on the channel and of course this is the news channel.
1:00:19
But it's also, you know, we all, we all hang out together.
1:00:22
We all do fun stuff together. This is our community, right?
1:00:25
And we want to be part of each other's lives.
1:00:28
So around the same time that I'm sort of like I'm trying to
1:00:31
figure out what I want to do. You know, I've I've lived in
1:00:35
where I am now, the Northeast. For a year in little bit more
1:00:40
like year and three months or something came back from Texas I
1:00:45
I. What I did, I did news at
1:00:49
Starbase on the side of the road.
1:00:51
I spent almost a year in the Super hot Starbase area filming
1:00:59
on the side of the road, live streaming and stuff on the side
1:01:00
of the road. Hwy. 4 and after that was done I
1:01:03
came back to the northeast to be with my family.
1:01:05
My dad is older and he needed some help so I came back and
1:01:08
helped him out a little bit. But also there were there were
1:01:13
always questions like hey, I want to move closer to NASA
1:01:17
because like when Starship starts launching from there when
1:01:21
from Kennedy Space Center, I want to be close.
1:01:23
So it's probably not going to happen till. 2027 but I wanted
1:01:27
to set like I wanted to be. There before it all started
1:01:32
happening. So I started making plans last
1:01:36
year for it and I figured 2024 would be the year that I moved
1:01:39
down there. And I get a place and you know,
1:01:42
I start setting roots down and about like a month ago, a month
1:01:49
and a half ago or something. Somebody from my.
1:01:53
Life from a long time ago, and we've been in contact since, you
1:01:57
know, since way back then, since I was a teenager, basically
1:02:01
this, this girl that I used to date, we started talking more.
1:02:06
Right. And it was a weird thing because
1:02:08
I'm like, hey. This is crazy that we talk so
1:02:12
much and we're not dating, you know?
1:02:14
So I was like one night, it was like 1:00 in the morning, we're
1:02:17
on the phone for like 4 hours. And I'm like, I'm, I'm like in
1:02:22
my heart. I'm like this is.
1:02:24
Perfect. This is the perfect girl, right?
1:02:27
And I'm like, and you know, I'm going to if, if it seems right,
1:02:30
I'm going to ask her basically like, ask her out.
1:02:33
She lives down South. I live in the Northeast.
1:02:36
So we're far away. It's a 20 hour car ride down to
1:02:39
her place and where she lives. So I'm like, could this work
1:02:45
long distance? Probably.
1:02:47
Like we've always been like, great together, right?
1:02:51
And this is a girl that I've absolutely loved my whole life.
1:02:54
And at about like 1:30 in the morning we were both like, you
1:02:58
know, we're both like just talking about whatever.
1:03:00
And she goes, hey, do you want to be my boyfriend?
1:03:05
And I was like, are you effing kidding me?
1:03:08
I was like, are you kidding me right now?
1:03:11
Like, what's going on? Because I was ready to ask her
1:03:15
in like the next 20 minutes. I was like, this is going
1:03:17
perfect. Like, I know there's something
1:03:19
there. So I was ready to ask her.
1:03:21
And I was like, and we have this.
1:03:22
You know, we have this. Relationship where we're, you
1:03:24
know we're. Good together or whatever.
1:03:26
And I could be like, hey, wait, are you effing with me, Raymond?
1:03:29
Like, what's going on? And she's like, no, I'm not.
1:03:32
And I was like, Oh yeah, absolutely.
1:03:35
Let's do it So we the last month and a half ish or last month
1:03:40
ish, we figured out what we needed to figure out and I have
1:03:48
the opportunity to go down there and be with her.
1:03:51
So I get to move down South early so I can cover NASA early,
1:03:57
which I wasn't expecting to do. I was expecting six months from
1:04:01
now, seven months from now, whatever like September I'd.
1:04:04
Moved down to Florida. But this all happened really
1:04:07
quick, and I was like chance of a lifetime perfect, like the
1:04:11
perfect girl for me. So I had to do this.
1:04:14
I had to go for it. So I was like, this is how it
1:04:17
works. And like, you never get this
1:04:20
chance ever in your life. So that's what that's all about,
1:04:25
Debs. What the?
1:04:28
Thank you Debs. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
1:04:32
That's going to help. It's going to help the move, but
1:04:35
it's also going to buy me a little Duncan here and there on
1:04:38
the trip down. So thanks Debs.
1:04:41
I really, I really do appreciate you of course.
1:04:44
And that's that's a lot. That's a lot.
1:04:46
So thank you. No wonder you have a a grin
1:04:50
going for do it. It's so cool.
1:04:52
I'm so stoked. I'm so pumped like.
1:04:55
You have no. Idea This is the girl of my
1:04:56
dreams. So yeah, literally everything I
1:04:59
ever wanted. So and then it happened like out
1:05:02
of nowhere. So I was like, all right, this
1:05:07
is going to be a thing. You.
1:05:09
Know. So now I get to do it.
1:05:10
Now I get to do it, and I get to cover NASA.
1:05:12
Like, what the hell is my life? Right.
1:05:15
What the hell is my life? This is crazy.
1:05:18
So yeah, as far as I'm as far as I'm concerned.
1:05:23
Done Deal. Let's go.
1:05:26
So yeah, I'm just like, I'm like a little kid, you know?
1:05:29
I'm super happy. So it's been a while, but let's
1:05:33
check back on Astrobotic. That's a little side tangent
1:05:35
there, but it yeah, I had to say it.
1:05:37
I had to tell you guys because Bob Brink brought up the brought
1:05:41
up the GoFundMe no update from Astrobotic which is 2 hours ago
1:05:48
at this point. So seems like there's nothing
1:05:51
else that's happening with Astrobotic at this point.
1:05:55
And we're we're hoping that they get some sort of information out
1:05:58
there. I'm going to check their.
1:06:00
Website as well. I think right now they're at
1:06:03
update #4. Yeah, there's still update #4,
1:06:09
which happened a couple hours ago.
1:06:12
This might take all day for them to give any sort of any more
1:06:15
information to us about anything that's happening.
1:06:19
So what I might do, I might take a little break here after
1:06:22
spilling my guts to everybody devs.
1:06:25
I don't think I can give you 55 launches by the way.
1:06:29
Yeah, after spilling my guts and my heart to everybody, I think I
1:06:33
have to take a break for a little bit.
1:06:35
Just because I can't talk all day.
1:06:38
It hurts my throat after a while.
1:06:40
And since I'm a solo presenter, basically, so I have to talk
1:06:43
straight for like an hour. So I'm going to take a quick
1:06:47
break for myself to, you know, like.
1:06:49
Re. Rehydrate and grab a little
1:06:52
snack, but I will leave you with some with some music that will
1:06:57
pump you up by the way pump you up.
1:07:01
To hopefully stay tuned for any sort of information, I'll check
1:07:09
in every 10 minutes or so and let you know if there's anything
1:07:11
new and if there's any telemetry data that we can get.
1:07:15
I'll be doing some more information.
1:07:16
I'll do be more doing some more research as I I jump off here
1:07:20
for a minute. So yeah, stay tuned and there
1:07:24
will be a couple more starships for you Debs, but after that I
1:07:28
got to cut you off. But dude, Debs, thank you so
1:07:30
much. I know, I know.
1:07:34
It's all good. So I got to.
1:07:36
Cut you off and then I got to play some music for you.
1:07:39
Or we're going to have some more information coming up soon, so
1:07:42
stay tuned. This is a breaking story, a
1:07:45
developing story. A NASA Lander has gone.
1:07:50
Possibly.