Juno: New Origins | LunaRock-1 | Live Mission Thread

LunaRock-1 & Hurricon-2 Launch Webcast

This forum post will follow LunaRock-1 as it heads to Luna to complete a sample return mission. Here you can follow the progress of the mission and wait for the live landing stream.

Events in order

Health Checks | 1.12.24 | COMPLETED | The spacecraft remains healthy after launch
TLI | 3.12.24 | COMPLETED |LunaRock-1 TLI burn completed at 16:14 GMT. The spacecraft will now coast for the next few days.
Luna Capture Burn | 5.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 successfully completed its capture burn at 15:35 GMT. The spacecraft is currently imaging possible landing sites for teams on Droo to analyse.
Health Checks | 5.12.24 | COMPLETED | The spacecraft remains healthy after capturing
Landing Site Selection | 6.12.24 |COMPLETED | The landing site is located in a flat-ish area
De-Orbit Burn | 7.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 is on target
Live Landing | 7.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 landed within 2.37km of the expected target zone, which was 10km in diameter. In terms of propellant margins, we had 5% left. This resulted in a slightly higher than expected landing velocity, but the lander is healthy and ready for surface operations.
Sample Collection | 10.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 has finished collecting samples! We’ll determine how much was collected after return
Other Experiments | 10.12.24 | COMPLETED | All other experiments were successfully conducted
Ascent Stage Launch | 11.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 successfully completed the return burn!
Trajectory Adjustments | 11.12.24 | COMPLETED | LunaRock-1 used its cold gas thrusters to adjust the re-entry trajectory
Re-Entry | 13.12.24 | FAILURE | The ascent stage failed to jettison, causing a loss of attitude control when the capsule hit the atmosphere. The capsule and ascent stage burnt up as a result.
Touchdown | 13.12.24 | FAILURE