Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?
Crash Landed on its head (I always though the design looked built to spill anyway), sent no images, I don’t believe we gained any scientific data (please correct me if I missed something on that front though), and froze to death in a week. This would all be a nice try and some learning progress if it was 1971 perhaps, but this goes in the failure book for sure. Not to say that failure = useless / bad. But let’s save the champagne success story for a company that gets it right.
It’s very good and learning progress for the 20s too. In the last 5 years for lunar lander missions we’ve had 6 outright failures, 2 successes, and this is the second “mixed success”
When nobody in your country does something for decades and then a different group of people try doing it in different ways, they’re largely starting from scratch.
sent no images
If you check the comments on Ars Technica, someone reposted an image that’s supposed to have come from the lander (it’s an uncorrected shot through a fisheye lens, though). Given that the link with Odysseus is apparently barely faster than an acoustic-coupler modem, I’m not expecting much more.
