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[QUOTE="mfb, post: 6900132, member: 405866"] Virgin Galactic's flight was a success. [url=https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4691]Accident investigation for Hakuto-R[/url]: During descent it flew over a cliff on the Moon, which caused the radar altimeter to suddenly produce a much larger distance estimate (correctly, of course). The software interpreted that as a broken altimeter and tried to land without it - it significantly underestimated its altitude and flew a touchdown maneuver 5 kilometers above the real surface until it ran out of fuel. This was not caught in simulations because they were only made for the initial landing site that didn't have large cliffs. They changed the landing site later without fully testing it again in simulations. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlUnOAiMm4]Video about it[/url] Assuming no delay we might get a new record of 17 people in orbit next week, up from 14 first achieved in 2021: 7 long-term ISS crew 4 ISS visitors (Axiom-2) <- landing May 31 to June 2 3 incoming Tiangong crew <- May 30 launch 3 outgoing Tiangong crew <- they'll wait for the new crew to arrive before leaving Edit: Launched on time. New record. [/QUOTE]
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