Since the lunar trailboller spacecraft was launched as a radiative spacecraft with the Falcon 9 launch at the end of February, NASA is providing a series of rapidly worrying about the health of the small orbit. It seems that the trailer is wandering with engineers on the ground and is beyond.
I A update appeared On Tuesday evening, the Space Agency acknowledged that a mission operation at the California Institute of Technology is continuing its efforts to re -establish contact with 200kg of spacecraft to visit the moon.
The space agency said, “Last week, the telemetry based on the loss of the signal and the ground -based radar data collected on March 2, the team believes the spacecraft is slowly roaming the low -power state.” “They will continue to monitor the signals if the spacecraft should change the orientation of the spacecraft where the solar panel gets more sunlight, which increases their production to support high strength tasks and communication.”
Science will not reach the orbit
As a result of these challenges, the lunar trailerzer has not been able to complete a series of small throster firing last week, causing them to enter their planned orbit around the moon. 100 km above the surface, the polar will enter the orbit. Upon reaching the moon six months from now, the trail biller’s intention was to read the shape, money and location of lunar ice in the shade palms.
If the dialogue can be re -established, the space agency said, it is still possible that the trail biller can be put in some kind of orbit around the moon and some of its objectives can be completed. However, the approach looks serious.
The falling fate of the Lunar Trail Billier spacecraft has raised additional questions about the NASA program to develop such low -cost missions. Known as small modern missions to search for the planet (or NASA’s simplex in torture abbreviations used for some of its programs), the program was created to fund the search for low -cost planets. So far, it has not yet recorded any success.