Israel’s First Lunar Mission Launched into Space

[jamal18]

Love them or hate them, you have to applaud the immense amount of engineering and innovation that is pouring out of Israel at the moment. They have hard working scientists in the private and government sectors.

When I see stuff like this I always wonder how Israel can manage to pull off such amazing feats of technology while at the same time elect complete lunatics like their current government. Or how they can have such bright minds such as these co exist with such backwards people like the settlers.

Then i take a good look at my country and I understand. This is a sad world.

Billions of dollars of 'free' money from the US, and an unprecedented level of access to US technology which no other country has, certainly help.

 

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Introduction

I told you a month ago, "never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast".

Beresheet is no more, it crashed on the lunar surface.

At 19:20 UTC, the descent module vertical speed started to turn YELLOW after main engine failure (60.1 m/s, previously ~25m/s), at an 10,124 meters altitude.

Then at 19:21 UTC, the descent module vertical speed turned RED, reaching 79.6m/s, at a 8236 meter altitudes, then 134.3m/s before the end of all telemetric retransmission.

The original planned touch down as displayed in Ben Gurion Airport Flight Timetable: 22:28 UTC+3

http://www.iaa.gov.il/en-US/airports/bengurion/Pages/OnlineFlights.aspx

Then simply deleted from the list at 22:29 UTC+3 to spare the humiliation of having to announce the crash of the flight !

http://www.iaa.gov.il/en-US/airports/bengurion/Pages/OnlineFlights.aspx

▲ Coincidence? I think not!

Commentary

Game Over, spaceflight is one of the most difficult technological challenge, not a stunt for the dilettante.

One can not skip ALL the incremental steps required to perform such a complex space mission successfully without consequence.

Don't forget that the Google X Prize stunt was aimed at belittling China's manned space achievement ("see everybody, even 3 German expats in Shanghai or Team Tibet can launch a man into space, it's that easy"), then Google Lunar X Prize to further overlook the achievement of China's Lunar landing.

Today this decade long farce is finally over. China is rightfully recognized as the space superpower it is. And Israel, the minor power it always was and will be. Not to mention all the bogus other teams.

But the epoch making month of April is not over, North Korea will surprise the world with its own technological prowess, so stay tuned! As the real and undisputed 4th space superpower.

https://i.imgur.com/JpOMGnZ.jpg
▲ 5. Korean-style epoch making month of April 2019.

 

[skyshadow]

no hard feeling this thing happens all the time next time it will work.

 

[GiannKall]

Very sad for this. I hate it when these kind of projects fail. But its part of space exploration

 

[Aramagedon]

Billions of dollars of 'free' money from the US, and an unprecedented level of access to US technology which no other country has, certainly help.

Without US they can’t throw a stone between their legs. Without US they had demised from face of earth long ago.

 

[delta2]

They can easily get all the data they want and need from NASA, for free.

Without US they can’t throw a stone between their legs. Without US they had demised from face of earth long ago.

What do you care? The Iranian crazy mullah regime is the ultimate secret weapon and allies of the US government in the region. At least the Israelis don't pretend like they aren't America's little kittens.

 

[delta2]

Fck your mother if you’re lying.

I'd tell you to come say that to my face. But knowing that cowardice runs in your blood since generations that would be expecting too much.

A bastard nation which is a product of temporary marriages can only be that, a nation of bastards. One mother but many fathers.

It only validates my point.

Fck your mother twice. One for being from a nation that is an agent of the Devil himself and the other for being who you are, product of a Muta.

 

[500]

Without US they can’t throw a stone between their legs. Without US they had demised from face of earth long ago.

Israel launched satellites without any US help.

 

[Aramagedon]

Because of good Pakistani muslim members that I know them as my brothers I should EDIT my post but don’t forget you have been conquered by so many empires and you just got your independence 70 years ago from British crusaders.

Btw there was nothing called marriage between arabs before Islam and vast majority of them are born by adultery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia

I'd tell you to come say that to my face. But knowing that cowardice runs in your blood since generations that would be expecting too much.

A bastard nation which is a product of temporary marriages can only be that, a nation of bastards. One mother but many fathers.

It only validates my point.

Fck your mother twice. One for being from a nation that is an agent of the Devil himself and the other for being who you are, product of a Muta.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Condolences to the Israeli moon landing team. There were many USA and Soviet failed moon landing attempts before the first successes (Soviet unmanned in 1966, USA manned Apollo 11 in 1969). The relatively inexpensive Israeli moon orbital rendezvous approach was very interesting. I hope Israel tries again soon.

 

[TruthSeeker]

A technical glitch led to Israeli spacecraft crash, company says
(CNN)Beresheet, an unmanned Israeli spacecraft, crashed during an attempt to land on the moon due to a technical glitch, said SpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit that launched it, citing preliminary data.

In a series of tweets Friday, the company behind the $100 million spacecraft said its engineers believe a technical glitch caused the main engine to shut down and later "made it impossible to slow the spacecraft's descent."

The spacecraft's first technical issue occurred at 14 kilometers (about 8.7 miles) above the moon, SpaceIL officials said. The Beresheet then lost communications with the control room in Israel during the landing sequence.

"At 150 meters when the connection with #Beresheet was lost, it was moving at 500 km/h, making a collision inevitable," the company tweeted.

Engineers were able to restart communications with the spacecraft but officials said it was too late -- it was already moving too fast to land properly.

The Israeli team was trying to become the fourth national space agency to make a controlled landing on the moon. Only teams from the United States, the former Soviet Union and China have done it before.
If the Israeli team had been successful, it would have been the first private enterprise to make a controlled landing, with the smallest spacecraft and the smallest budget.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, known for his Apollo 11 moonwalk, sent a message of support to the Beresheet team.
"Condolences to the Beresheet lander @TeamSpaceIL for what almost was! Communications were lost with the spacecraft just 150 meters (!!!) above the surface, and it couldn't quite stick the landing."
"Never lose hope - your hard work, teamwork, and innovation is inspiring to all!," Aldrin tweeted.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/middleeast/israel-moon-spacecraft-beresheet/index.html

 

[Wow]

Anti Semitic moon

 

[delta2]

Israel launched satellites without any US help.

Yeah right lol!

Because of good Pakistani muslim members that I know them as my brothers I should EDIT my post but don’t forget you have been conquered by so many empires and you just got your independence 70 years ago from British crusaders.

Btw there was nothing called marriage between arabs before Islam and vast majority of them are born by adultery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia

You made it personal by attacking me personally.

I don't make personal attacks, I only retaliated.

 

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Vikram's Impact Crater, Ejecta And Wreckage

According to the ISRO's propaganda wording on 18th September 2019, the Vikram lander, in its ‘last moment’ of impacting the lunar surface on September 7 has helped expose subsurface material.

This sheer sophistry cannot conceal what was known from day one by ISRO, that the crash had caused an artificial crater big enough to be photographed by the orbiter.

Vikram could not play its intended role of achieving a soft-landing and enabling the robotic rover Pragyan to roll out, to conduct lunar surface exploration, its hard impact on the lunar surface has left a little crater, big enough for Chandrayaan-2’s powerful Imaging Infra-Red Spectrometer (IIRS)

Another ISRO scientist said Vikram, weighing 1,471 kg (245 kg on moon as its gravity is one-sixth that of earth’s), would have raised a considerable lunar dust plume on impacting the lunar surface near the south pole although the velocity with which it impacted was much less than that of the MIP, weighing 34 kg (5.6 kg on moon).

http://web.archive.org/web/20190929...look-for-water-on-moon-says-isro-2035311.html
http://archive.is/SLFB9

And indeed, its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter 0.3 meter ground resolution camera has imaged the wreckage, but refusing to make it public and waiting for the U.S. NASA LRO orbiter to take image of only 1 meter resolution only shows the desperation of ISRO to fool the world masses!

Below the ejecta left after the Israeli lander Beresheet crashed on the lunar surface on 11 April 2019, as imaged from the LRO orbiter. Extending over 100 meters, indeed large enough to be spotted.

https://archive.fo/NNyGQ/565d5ca51dcfcd00ec0448b09a8393a7f4584d69.gif ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190929...ctures/769/content_BeresheetImpact_1100px.gif ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190929142206/https://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/1101 ; http://archive.fo/j732l
▲ 1. The Beresheet impact occurred on 11 April 2019 and LRO passed overhead 11 days later.

2019: A Chinese Space Odyssey

19 September 2019

China's lunar exploration program has released images that give us a glimpse of the mysterious artifact discovered on the far side of the moon.

Yutu-2, the lunar rover for China's Chang'e-4 mission, grabbed attention last month after its drive team spotted something unusual while roving close to a small crater. The Chinese-language science outreach publication Our Space, which announced the findings on Aug. 17, used the term "胶状物" (jiao zhuang wu), which can be translated as "gel-like." This notion sparked wide interest and speculation among lunar scientists.

Scientists have now gotten a look at that curious material, thanks to a post (Chinese) released over the weekend by Our Space via its WeChat social media account. Along with new images of the stuff on the moon, the post details how the Yutu-2 team carefully approached the crater in order to analyze the specimen, despite risks.

https://archive.is/Qbl8b/00e5f24e86fcb240dcf1ed31c36f312bfd27f881.jpg ; https://archive.is/Qbl8b/78de481794a7f5b8c4cc4a524f2d268299b22cde/scr.png ; https://archive.is/3Bttz/919b5402474730e16a6f0ce6ad57df9f6d7d1be3 ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190927...x_fmt=jpeg&tp=webp&wxfrom=5&wx_lazy=1&wx_co=1 ; http://archive.is/3Bttz ; http://web.archive.org/web/20190927142824/https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/c7edQwOcN0gL9lQuylWRCA
▲ 1. China's Yutu-2 moon rover captured this image from the edge of the small crater where it found a mysterious artifact.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1176434971965181952

https://twitter.com/f99600406/status/1176434971965181952
▲ 1. 2019: A Chinese Space Odyssey.


http://web.archive.org/web/20190927142824/https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/c7edQwOcN0gL9lQuylWRCA
http://archive.is/3Bttz