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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the first I’ve seen mentioned that they will try and wake it after the lunar night passes. I had wondered about that but it was not mentioned anywhere that I’d seen.

[–] Tremble@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It says plan was only 8 or 9 days but they always seem to get way more life out of these things (when it’s not broke lol) hopefully they can compensate and keep it alive

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I guess the main issue is the batteries in the deep freeze of lunar night; they’re likely to be damaged by the -270 temperatures. If you’re not budgeted to deal with that then you don’t spend a lot of money trying to survive it for 2 weeks.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Except for that one that landed on an asteroid.