Israeli Moon Mission Fails: Spacecraft Crashes

[The SC]

Thu April 11, 2019

An image shows the Beresheet spacecraft before it crashed in the moon's surface.

(CNN) Israel's Beresheet, the first privately-funded mission to the moon, has crashed.
The spacecraft aimed to perform a soft landing on the moon and would have made Israel the fourth country to do so -- and by far the smallest. Only the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have done it before.

"I am sorry to say that our spacecraft did not make it in one piece to the moon," said Opher Doron, the manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' Space Division.

"We made it all the way to the moon. This is a great accomplishment. We are the seventh country to make it all the way to the moon."

The $100 million spacecraft, built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, lost communications with the control room in Israel during the landing sequence. As program managers who had been watching the mission in real time tried to re-establish communications, they also dealt with issues in the spacecraft's main engine.

At the time of the communications failure, the Beresheet was traveling at approximately 2,110 mph and was about 120 kilometers (about 74 miles) from its intended landing site.

"There is a suspicion that we did not land on the moon in the best fashion. We are trying to clarify the matter," a member of the SpaceIL team monitoring the landing sequence said.
The spacecraft crashed in the last part of its journey, moments before it was supposed to land.

SpaceIL was founded eight years ago to compete for the Google Lunar XPrize. The contest offered $20 million for the first privately funded team to launch a spacecraft to the moon, transmit high-definition video and travel 500 meters in any direction.

The XPrize was cancelled in January 2018 but the Israeli team decided to continue its pursuit of the moon landing.

The Beresheet spacecraft was launched on board a Falcon 9 rocket in late February. It traveled a total of 4 million miles to the moon, soaring around the Earth before entering orbit around the moon.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/middleeast/israel-moon-landing/index.html

 

[Kaniska]

It is good to see they have landed the rover till Moon..I hope next time they will be successful..

It is good to see they have landed the rover till Moon..I hope next time they will be successful..

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

It's not called you made it if you crash on into it

 

[Beast]

Its very difficult to make decent landing on moon or mars.

Not many countries can do it. Even ESA can't do it.

But there is one country can do it recently.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Latest news: The probe unfortunately hit the moon when landing, and Israel’s first landing try on the moon failed
2019-04-12 07:57:50
https://www.toutiao.com/a6678790411839865351/
The latest news, Israel’s first private moon landing probe, originally scheduled to land on April 11th in the United States, unfortunately hit the moon when it landed this afternoon (April 11)! Landing on the moon plan failed!

The Beresheet robotic spacecraft, manufactured by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), was designed to be the first Israeli aircraft and the first privately funded mission to the moon. But this little robot didn't succeed. It was only a step away from the moon. Unfortunately, it hit the gray soil around 3:25 pm EST. At a height of approximately 489 feet from the surface of the moon, approximately 149 meters, the mission control center lost contact with the spacecraft. It is clear that Israel’s first lunar lander is still slightly inadequate in its historic landing plan.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that our spacecraft had failed and, unfortunately, we failed to land successfully. But so far, this is a huge achievement. If you didn't succeed in the first place, try again because the road to the moon is still very long.

Therefore, the list of countries on the moon is still three, all superpowers - the Soviet Union, the United States and China. However, we will see that Beresch has made many achievements in its short life.

just! The Israeli detector unfortunately hit the moon when it landed! Landing on the moon plan failed!


On April 11, 2019, the Bereside spacecraft captured this "self-portrait" during the landing, which was the last self-timer it left, when it was about 22 kilometers from the moon.

The story of Beresheet began in 2011 when the non-profit organization SpaceIL was formed to compete for the Google Moon X Award. GLXP provided $20 million to the first privately funded team, allowing them to gently place a robot on the moon, moving at least 1,650 feet to 500 meters on the surface of the moon, and letting it take high-resolution images Returned to Earth.

The runner-up will receive $5 million. In addition, there are $5 million for various special achievements, bringing the total prize money to $30 million. But the game ended last year with no winners, but SpaceIL and India's largest aerospace and defense company, the Indian Aircraft Industry Corporation (IAI), continue to develop the Beresheet, which is 5 feet high and 1.5 meters high.

Last month, the X Prize Foundation announced that if Beresheet successfully landed on the surface of the moon, SpaceIL will receive a special moon landing prize of $1 million. Just a few minutes after Beresheet’s unfortunate crash on the moon, X Prize founder and executive chairman Peter Diamandis and CEO Anush Ansari still said that despite the failure to land, SpaceIL and the Indian aircraft industry The company will still receive the award.

Ansari said: "I think they have successfully reached the surface of the moon. This is what we are looking for for the moon landing. In addition to touching the surface of the moon, they also touch the lives and minds of students across the country, the world, and the world. ”

The lander was launched on the evening of February 21 and was launched into the Earth orbit with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. For the next six weeks, we are spinning around our planet, starting the engine from time to time, pushing its elliptical orbit closer to the moon.


The team members said that in this phase of the mission, the "Bai Lei Watch" eventually covered about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) of the moon landing, so far no other spacecraft can take such a long way to the moon.

Beresheet's slow and steady strategy paid off on April 4, when the moon's gravity captured the lander. Subsequently, the Bereshee reduced its lunar orbit through a series of combustions, the last of which occurred yesterday (April 10, US time). The task team member said that the 32-second operation allowed the spacecraft to enter a highly elliptical orbit, with a distance of only 15 to 17 kilometers from the moon and 200 kilometers from the lime.

Today's landing plan is automatic, and the one on the near side of the moon is called the “Mare Serenitatis” (meaning “Sea of Calm”). So far, all lunar surface detectors have been detected near the ground, with one exception: last December, our country's 嫦娥4 detector landed in the distance.

Beresheet originally planned to work on the moon for two to three days to measure the local gravitational field around the landing site. The spacecraft also features a small array of laser reflectors made by NASA, a technical demonstration that will improve the accuracy of future landings on the moon and other celestial bodies. But the essence of Beresheet is not a scientific task. Representatives of SpaceIL and IAI said that Beresheet's main goals include advancing Israel's space program, increasing national know-how, and making young people more interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.



The lander did this. After all, it successfully entered the lunar orbit, sent a photo back from the surface of the moon, and landed almost successfully. Beresheet has done all of this, and the total mission cost, including launch, is only $100 million.

In addition, project team members have met more than 1 million Israeli schoolchildren in the past eight years and have disseminated information on space exploration to the youth. Some of these children will eventually become scientists, and maybe one day they will help them design, build or operate spacecraft.

Morris Kahn, an entrepreneur who helped build the Bereside mission, said shortly after the failure of the spacecraft landing. "I regret that we have not succeeded, but we tried it. I think we can be proud."
刚刚！以色列探测器着陆时不幸撞上月球！登陆月球计划宣告失败！
原创 超弦 2019-04-12 07:57:50
最新消息，原定于美国世界4月11日着陆的以色列首个私人登月探测器今天下午(4月11日)着陆时不幸撞上月球！登陆月球计划宣告失败！

由SpaceIL公司和以色列航空航天工业公司(IAI)制造的Beresheet机器人宇宙飞船，旨在成为第一个以色列飞行器，也是第一个私人资助的登月任务。但是这个小机器人没能成功，差登月仅一步之遥，不幸在美国东部时间下午3点25分左右撞上了灰色的泥土。在距离月球表面约489英尺约合149米的高度，任务控制中心与该航天器失去了联系。很显然以色列的第一个月球着陆器在其历史性的着陆计划中的准备仍然略显不足。

以色列总理本雅明内塔尼亚胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)对此表示，我们的飞船出了故障，不幸的是，我们未能成功着陆。但是到目前为止，这是一个巨大的成就。如果一开始没有成功，那就再试一次，因为通往月球的路还很长。

因此，登月国家的名单仍然是三个，都是超级大国——苏联、美国和中国。但是，我们将会看到，贝雷舍特在它短暂的生命中取得了很多成就。

2019年4月11日，贝雷赛特号飞船在着陆过程中捕捉到了这张“自拍”，这也是它留下的最后一张自拍，当时它距离月球约22公里。

Beresheet的故事始于2011年，当时成立了非营利组织SpaceIL来角逐谷歌月球X奖。GLXP公司向第一个私人资助的团队提供了2000万美元，让他们把一个机器人轻轻地放在月球上，在月球表面移动至少1650英尺约合500米，并让它把高分辨率的图像传回地球。

此次的亚军将获得500万美元。此外，还有500万美元用于各种特殊成就，使比赛总奖金达到3000万美元。但是比赛于去年结束，没有赢家，但SpaceIL公司和印度最大的航空航天和国防公司印度飞机工业公司(IAI)仍继续研制5英尺高约合1.5米的Beresheet。

上个月，X奖基金会宣布，如果Beresheet成功登陆月球表面，SpaceIL公司将获得100万美元的特别登月奖。就在Beresheet登陆月球不幸坠毁几分钟后，X大奖创始人兼执行主席彼得·迪亚曼迪斯和首席执行官阿努什·安萨里仍然表示，尽管未能着陆，但SpaceIL和印度飞机工业公司仍然将获得该奖项。

安萨里说:“我认为他们成功地到达了月球表面，这就是我们为登月计划寻找的目标。除了触摸月球表面，他们还触摸了整个国家、整个世界、全世界学生的生命和心灵。”

该着陆器于2月21日晚发射，搭载SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭飞入地球轨道。接下来的六个星期里都在绕着我们的星球旋转，时不时地发动引擎，把它的椭圆轨道推得离月球越来越近。

团队成员说，在这一阶段的任务中，“贝雷表”最终覆盖了大约400万英里(650万公里)的登月路程，到目前为止没有其他航天器能走这么长的路到达月球。

Beresheet的缓慢而稳定的策略在4月4日得到了回报，当时月球的引力捕获了着陆器。随后，Bereshee号通过一系列燃烧降低了它的月球轨道，最后一次燃烧发生在昨天(美国时间4月10日)。任务小组成员说，那次32秒的操作使航天器进入了一个高度椭圆的轨道，离月球最近的距离只有15至17公里，离灰土最远的距离为200公里。

今天的着陆计划是自动进行的，在月球近侧的一片被称为“宁静海”(Mare Serenitatis，意为“平静之海”)。到目前为止，所有月球表面探测器都探测过近地，只有一个例外:去年12月，我国的嫦娥四号探测器在远地着陆。

Beresheet原本计划在月球上工作了两到三天，旨在测量着陆地点周围的局部重力场。这艘飞船还搭载了美国宇航局(NASA)制造的一个小型激光反射器阵列，这是一项技术演示，可以提高未来在月球和其他天体上着陆的精度。但Beresheet的本质并不是一项科学任务。SpaceIL和IAI的代表说，Beresheet的主要目标包括推进以色列的太空计划，增加国家的技术诀窍，让年轻人对科学、技术、工程和数学更感兴趣。

着陆器确实做到了这些。毕竟，它成功地进入了月球轨道，从月球表面发回了一张照片，并几乎成功着陆。Beresheet完成了所有这些，包括发射在内的总任务成本仅为1亿美元。

此外，项目小组成员在过去8年里会见了100多万名以色列学童，向青年大众传播了空间探索的信息。其中一些孩子最终会成为科学家，也许有一天他们会帮助自己设计、建造或操作宇宙飞船。

帮助建立贝雷赛特任务的企业家莫里斯卡恩(Morris Kahn)在飞船着陆失败后不久称，“很遗憾我们没能成功，但我们尝试了，我认为我们可以感到自豪。”

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

As far as I know, only China has the ability to achieve a soft landing on the moon for now. Whether the United States and Russia still have the ability to land on the moon is a big problem!

Russia has no money, and the United States does not have this plan!

 

[Beast]

This kind of technology feat is not for any countries. Some country shall know their limit. It is to known US supply and contributed a lot to help Israel and yet, it still can failed.

After all, Israel is not some real genius. They are human being after all.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Westerners are still saying that soft landings on the moon are simple in order to rate China's lunar probes and rovers. In fact, so far, it can be said that only Russia, the United States and China have achieved a soft landing on the moon.

 

[Beast]

As far as I know, only China has the ability to achieve a soft landing on the moon for now. Whether the United States and Russia still have the ability to land on the moon is a big problem!

Russia has no money, and the United States does not have this plan!

United States land their rovers on Mars recently, I believe their landing is even more mature and better than China but other than these 2 countries, I believe no one else can do it.

Russian has long lost all the capabilities for soft landing. Japan has landed a small rovers on an asteroid but its far less accomplished than landed on moon or mars.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Israel not the power it once was.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

China succeeded in 1 time

 

[Beast]

Westerners are still saying that soft landings on the moon are simple in order to rate China's lunar probes and rovers. In fact, so far, it can be said that only Russia, the United States and China have achieved a soft landing on the moon.

The fact, US heavy assisted them and yet still failed. Looks like Israel tech is over rated.

Western is good in marketing but the product never lives up to its hype.

 

[Lincoln]

United States land their rovers on Mars recently, I believe their landing is even more mature and better than China but other than these 2 countries, I believe no one else can do it.

Russian has long lost all the capabilities for soft landing. Japan has landed a small rovers on an asteroid but its far less accomplished than landed on moon or mars.

First attempts usually have failed. At least they got close. Where do we, Pakistan... Not China, stand in space? Think about that.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

The fact, US heavy assisted them and yet still failed. Looks like Israel tech is over rated.

Western is good in marketing but the product never lives up to its hype.

Good quality control makes good quality products! Germany trains and japaneses trains also killed a lot of people, no need to mention Boeing 737 max death aircrafts.

 

[God Parshuram]

This kind of technology feat is not for any countries. Some country shall know their limit. It is to known US supply and contributed a lot to help Israel and yet, it still can failed.

After all, Israel is not some real genius. They are human being after all.

True, we saw a Chinese mission failed on moon in same way.