Astrobotic’s Lunar Lander Fails Miserably Due to "Glaringly Obvious" Design Flaw
A scathing post-mortem report has revealed that Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander went up in flames because of a ridiculously simple mistake that a junior engineer could have caught – a single valve in the propulsion system had a problem. The company’s vaunted leadership is now claiming that they’ve "fixed the issue" by redesigning the valve and introducing additional redundancy, but it’s clear that the whole debacle is a giant mess of corporate incompetence.
According to insiders, the team at Astrobotic knew about the problem as far back as 2019, but they chose to ignore it and blame the failure on the pandemic. It took them over two years to acknowledge the issue, and by then it was too late – the lander was toast.
But wait, it gets worse. The report reveals that the team made a series of bizarre decisions, including installing valves that had already shown signs of leakage and repairing them instead of replacing them. It’s like they were trying to fix a broken leg by slapping some duct tape on it.
Astrobotic’s CEO is now claiming that they’ve learned their lesson and that the new Griffin lander will be immune to these kinds of mistakes. But let’s be real, we’ve seen this movie before – and the ending is always the same: catastrophe.
The fact that this incident occurred despite the company’s boasts of "vertical integration" and "doing things in-house" is a giant red flag. It’s clear that Astrobotic is more interested in saving a buck than in making sure their technology works. The question is, will anyone survive the next mission?
