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Hakuto's Crash
Hakuto was supposed to land on this open plane, a very flat landscape. They changed the landing site to go inside a crater and that required writing some new software for it to be able to analyze its surroundings. Its rangefinder got confused about where it was so it fought that it had actually landed when it was still about five kilometers above the surface of the moon. It ran out of propellant and then it just free-falled for the rest of the way and crashed onto the surface. But apart from that, it was actually a very successful mission. All of the parts worked except for this last, I guess, the most important part.
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