trouble with the Peregrine. all lifted from Thomas Moore, Sky News, Australia
"about seven hours after liftoff, Astrobotic Technology reported the solar panel on the lander wasn’t properly pointed toward the sun to generate and store power and it was investigating the issue....
....Astrobotic says the spacecraft isn’t in a ‘stable sun-pointing orientation’. That suggests its solar panels won’t be harvesting anywhere near enough solar energy and if the company can’t quickly stabilize the lunar lander it will lose power.
It’s unclear what has gone wrong. […] Astrobotic will be trying to work a solution. If it’s hardware, can they use a back-up system? If it’s software, can they upload new computer code to correct the bug?"
EDIT: forgot to say Moore updated his story that the solar thing got fixed but another problem arose.
The second anomaly is this:
"A spacecraft which was heading for the moon has suffered a "critical loss of propellant", the company behind it has said.
It appears there has been a "failure within the propulsion system", Astrobotic added.
In the first image of the Peregrine from space, Astrobotic said Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) was shown to be"disturbed" - the first visual clue that aligns with their data, pointing to a propulsion system anomaly."
----I've been following this today on and off. I have to guess (I don't know) is these two "anomalies" are related. I.E. propulsion problem = sun positioning (solar panel) problem.