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They crashed. Based on the occasional English commentary during the stream, they had an IMU failure, that recovered, but then a main engine failure right near the end of the descent. They got the engine online again, but just looking the speeds on the telemetry, it was too late.


Yup, sadly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landi...

> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.




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