Here's today's press release for JAXA's SLIM lunar landing!
TL;DR:
Pinpoint site identification was crazily successful.
We were lowering into position, detecting boulders like a champ.
THEN ONE OF THE ENGINES DROPPED OFF.
(I kid you not)
(we don't know why yet)
(maybe space pirates)
But we still soft-landed on 1 engine.
(TAKE THAT SPACE PIRATES!)
but on our head.
Strangely, might not be a big deal once the Sun moves round to the other side of the spacecraft.
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@elizabethtasker i can't find where in the press release it says the engine dropped off. It mentions it lost thrust in one of them. Is there more detail in the Japanese version?
@phenakistoscope It was said during the press release. I have done the translation for the slides for this, but they're not posted yet. Hopefully later today...