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Generally when a rocket explodes on pad, fails to achieve escape velocity, or otherwise does not complete its mission, it’s a failure. That’s not entirely true, however, for the world’s first nano lunar rover, even though it did not successfully reach the moon’s surface.
So what can we learn from what was intended to be the first American-made lunar rover to land on the moon since 1972? Apparently plenty, according to three Carnegie Mellon students who helped build and launch it. Interestingly, however, the team was still able to communicate with Iris, transmitting data, running commands and getting responses back while it was in a highly eccentric earth orbit.the lunar lander vehicle: it was bolted to the outside. That means that the team was able to verify that onboard systems were on and functioning well in hard vacuum, exposed to the solar wind as well as cosmic rays.
That will help open up space for exploration and maybe even settlement, Iris team member Carmyn Talento says.
Carnegie Mellon Space Lunar Lander Moon Mission Peregrine One
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