Comments by "Al Als" (@alals6794) on "Astrum" channel.

The only reason these probes have lasted as long as they have, circa 2024, is because they were not built on the basis of the profit motive. Whereas now, we had 2 private companies sending landers to the one where the first ended before even getting there and the second, Odysseus, landed on its side, blocking its main solar panel such that minimal data was gathered from the lander. And it only managed to land at all because of a secondary system built by NASA, not a private company..... It was later learned that it landed on its side because of cost cutting measures by the private company....haha
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