posted on Mar, 20 2005 @ 01:10 PM
According to their site, an accidental 11 hour thrust of the ion engine, needs to be compansated for and pushes the final orbit/photos a few weeks
back until April
sci.esa.int...
Well, plenty food for conspiricy theorists:
- Did SMART-1 never had a glitch, but is it fabricated, so that the French intelligence can photoshop and blur the valuable icecraters first before
releasing to the public
- Did someone tried to get SMART-1 away from the moon, to cover up any moon hoax
- SMART-1 been warned off the moon again by alien nazis from the far side
- Fill in your favourite theory here
[edit on 20-3-2005 by Silenus]