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On this livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJwjuo8pBo a commentator explains that the probe had some autonomy in choosing exactly where to land. So the deviation from the expected course was not necessarily something going wrong.

Edit: Apparently it can hover at 400m for up to 90 seconds to image the potential landing site. The loss of communication actually happened before the hovering phase started.




Unfortunately it could not have been hovering though. The velocity was almost certainly too high for the spacecraft to handle.


They said in the video when they were informing Modi that it was 1km from the original landing site at last reading at 400m.


Yes, and the rotation of the probe resulted in the engine pointing downwards, which means that it may have been intentional.


So ... MCAS again?




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