The mission was not a success: it did not meet their minimum goal of one week.
Failure happens and is nothing to be ashamed of when trying for such an ambitious goal. ESA needs to own it and move on.
Failure happens and is nothing to be ashamed of when trying for such an ambitious goal. ESA needs to own it and move on.
Also, it’s not a dichotomous failure/success condition. Some things worked, some things didn’t. That’s the actual situation. That much is obvious. It seems they actually managed to fulfill all the primary goals, though you will probably have to wait for the published papers to assess the quality of the collected data. Could take a couple years.