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[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It didn't land upside down, it rolled over after touch down due to high lateral velocity after one of its engines malfunctioned (and the whole reason it managed to land softly at all is because onboard software was programmed to handle such cases and find a way to land it anyway).

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

It would be amazing if they could figure out how to right it.