Discusses what happened to the Mexican mission to Luna and why it failed

A few days after takeoff, Colmena, the first Mexican mission to the Moon, experienced an event that changed its destiny.

So far this week, and part of the past week, there’s been a lot of talk about it the hiveThe First Mexican mission to the moon. But, after a few days of its launch, there are already mentions about it failure. what happened?

What was the first Mexican mission to the moon and what did it involve?

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The first Mexican laboratory to place instrumentation in the stratosphere and to develop instruments with international agencies, COLMENA’s main objective is to be a pioneer in testing the concept of using autonomous micro-robots in space exploration and mining tasks..

Contains missions 5 Microrobots Self-organizing and capable of collecting data from the lunar surface. Due to its proportions (12 centimeters in diameter and weighing less than 60 grams) robots would be a few centimeters away from the lunar regolith.

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so that This past January 8, Coleman’s mission began its journey to its destinationon the ship Peregrine Lunar Lander, a lander created by astrobotic technology. took off in Cape Canaveral, Florida

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What happened to COMENA?

Basically what happened is the ship the pilgrim Can’t land on the moon, because a Fuel leak.

UNAM’s Institute of Nuclear Sciences maintains that, whatever the outcome, Colmena has taken an important stepGiven that it has become possible to specify technical-scientific knowledge, educational training and project its path. Next mission.

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it is the same, Colmena represents the first of a series of three missions that will be carried out to the Moon by 2030.Space exploration by Mexico will therefore continue in the coming years.

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