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True. I concur. But did we have that kind of clearances and margins ? Given that we would like to land at the bottom of a crater to give our instruments the most probability...

Anybody who makes that argument should be fucked sideways with a wooden stick , still attached to the forest it came from.... As a third gen technocrat this literally grinds my gear.

Plausible. Because at the end of "Hard Braking" it was over speeding at a lower altitudes... A very small deviation from the central green optimum path. As a feedback loop the thrusters over compensated with a bit more thrust , hence reducing the horizontal component a bit more than needed. The...

Is that a standard or announced before hand assuming that this would occur?

Dunno, it should be zero in vertical axsis. Though an interesting observation was that Vikram was supersonic even few sec before finishing "Hard Braking"

Nah I saw the animation where it reoriented itself before the comm blackout

Did we cut the main thusters after the "Fine Braking"…? Did that somehow cut the electrical system out? Or just the dust plume block the RF ? Without any wind or low gravity, the dust will take its own sweet time to settle... It can take longer than agitated house representatives to get back to...

Let's not worry about the skum of the earth tonight.... Let's just brainstorm what went wrong... Ganduo Ko to har din marte hai...

OUR ISRO did it's best. We can just hope for the best. How does the lunar dust come into the picture... It's charged, could affect the RF link between the lander and the orbiter... And with the orbiter whizzing past the landing site, there is only a small time slice where the comm can be...

Yeah baby, we are going to land on the Freaking Moon...! Now we just have to twiddle our thumbs till Sept 7.