I'm Listening To The Astrobotic / Peregrine Press Conference -- On Last Week's Misfire Of The Oxidizer, In Orbit -- Of Its Robotic Moon Shot.

I have the link below, if you want to listen in.

The team is describing end of mission now -- the craft was moving too slowly, and was off-kilter (as we reported last week), as to reaching the moon on a second loop. The craft would never reach the moon. And it would soon be out of battery life. So the team scrubbed the mission, and let the craft burn up in Earth's atmosphere on return. . . and drop the final bits of it into the South Pacific. That happened around 4 pm Eastern yesterday:



Yes -- space is. . . hard. It does not cooperate.

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