JAKARTA – Astrobotic Technology, a space robotics company, has lost Peregrine’s signal. This happened because Astrobotic’s artificial lander had entered a period of signal loss.
Before Peregrine left NASA’s Deep Space Network, Astrobotic predicted that their spacecraft would experience a communications outage for 9 hours.
“At approximately 7pm, we will enter an estimated 9-hour period of signal loss, our longest period without communications. “We hope to be able to re-establish communication around 4 am,” Astrobotic said in an official statement.
Astrobotic did not explain the reasons for the communications breakdown. They only explained that the company managed to collect data from some of the payloads carried by Peregrine into space.
“We successfully received data from nine payloads designed to communicate with the lander. “Ten loads requiring energy received it, while the remaining ten loads are passive,” Astrobotic explained.
The ten Peregrine payloads that can transmit data are the Iris lunar rover, COLMENA, the M-42 radiation detector, the Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS), the Volatile Near-Infrared Spectrometer System (NIRVSS), and the of neutron spectrometer (NSS).
Additionally, there is the Peregrine Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), Pocari Sweat’s Lunar Dream Time capsule, Optical Precision Autonomous Landing (OPAL), and the Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL). Astrobotic did not explain the payloads for which it was unable to receive data.
Once Peregrine reconnects to NASA’s Deep Space Network, it won’t live long. The Peregrine had only 48 hours of fuel left, and the craft was so far out of the Moon’s path that its landing had already been confirmed as a failure.
Tag: NASA mission on the lunar space satellite
2024-01-12 05:05:00
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