According to a source in Aeroflot,
#Russia
will not return airplanes leased from European companies (more than 500). Trust in protection of property rights will disappear. Who will ever send any machinery to Russia again?
A bit of physics to help understand why this happens. When a lander is tipping, inertial forces push it over, while gravity pulls its feet back down flat. On the Moon, gravity is reduced by a factor of 6, but inertial forces are not. *Everything is 6 times tippier on the Moon.*
It is actually plausible that the 'Ukrainian' color flight suits are in fact "Bauman University" color suits. They made a big deal of this being the first all-Bauman crew. (BMGTU is sort of Moscow's MIT AeroAstro and many Russian astronauts are graduates)
For those wondering,
@JAXA_jp
is calling
#SLIM
! Caught the tail end of a call on the side lobe of my IM-1 aimed antenna.
Yes, IM-1 is that close (angularly) to the Moon now 😉
Talked to
@elonmusk
. I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. Discussed possible space projects 🚀. But I’ll talk about this after the war.
The telemetry is convolutionally encoded with the CCSDS code, but the rest is non-CCSDS. There is IESS-308 scrambling, and the syncword is 0xFAF320. The Morse code that modulates the residual carrier looks like gibberish to me, so maybe someone can make some sense out of it.
Based on the last images from the landing telemetry there are clues as to how maybe
#SLIM
is oriented on the lunar surface facing westward tipped onto it's nose. Supports no charging now. The Sun won't have a hope of charging the batteries until after ~2024-01-24T00 UTC. ⬇️
NEW: Ukraine troops reported outages of Starlink devices on frontline, hindering efforts to liberate territory from Russian forces, Ukrainian officials & soldiers told us.
My first
@FT
byline, with star squad
@MehulAtLarge
,
@felschwartz
, Roman Olearchyk.
More than 11 years without tire fitting/repair.
This is what one of the wheels of the Curiosity rover looks like at the moment.
Image was taken few days ago.