UPDATE – New Lunar Lander Crash Record!

NEW “Crash” Landing Speed Record = 303.7 mps!

Here are a few ‘Lessons Learned’ and ‘Hints’ to achieve a 303.7 mps lunar impact speed:

3) Definitely use the great hints previously provided by Magalie and Bennett – they really work – thanks for the tips!

2) Here are our team's lessons learned (which are only a refinement of Magalie and Bennett’s second hint last week). We achieved our best results by using about ¾ of the fuel on the first maneuver and leaving about ¼ of the fuel for the final continuous burn. This gave us a Post Maneuver 1 maximum altitude of ~ 15,000 km. We then started our last continuous burn at ~ 3440 km altitude. This worked great – thanks again Magalie and Bennett! Although we believe that we are approaching a simulation impact speed maximum, we still challenge everyone to beat our record. Good Luck!

1) Have FUN!

You can continue to send us your best scores to magic@kelvin.net and we will publish your team’s accomplishments on the blog post or just leave a comment below to let us know what you’ve learned and how well your team did.

sic itur ad astra,

Mystical Moon

PS We have several teams with young astronauts like Bennett – keep practicing and "thus you shall go to the stars" !

"All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away." - Dr. Wernher von Braun