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John bachelor bob peragon is headed, is that a good thing?

Not really.

Paragrin was the Unmanned Luna Land that the private company

Astrobatic had built and had payloads on it from NASA and other private

companies and it was supposed to land on the moon, soft land on the moon attempt

up the first private landing. We've had a lot of attempts and no one's gotten quite done yet.

It got launched on the Vulcan rocket successfully, but after launch it appears

that there was a leak in the internal helium tank that's used to keep the

pressure up in the oxygen tank of this spacecraft and that leak caused an increase in

pressure that then ruptured the not an oxygen propellant tank and so what happened is it lost fuel at a leak.

And so even though it was on an orbit

that would bring it out to lunar distance,

and it was still in Earth orbit.

And they now managed to keep it operational till it reached Lou to space and they have

actually gotten data back from all nine payloads that they're supposed to

communicate with it ain't to land on the moon.

And what's going to happen instead is that long elongated orbit

is going to turn back and head back to Earth.

And they're going to make sure that when it hits the Earth it hits the

atmosphere and burns up in the atmosphere and the reason they're doing that is

because it won't have the fuel to get to the moon and so therefore if they let it

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