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2019-04-11, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
Israel tried this morning to be the fourth country in history to land on the moon, and the first with a privately funded moon lander.... but the lander glitched out during the landing phase, and is believed lost.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/04/1...d-moon-lander/
Initial reports are pretty confused. Some reports say a problem with the IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit -- a super-sensitive accelerometer, basically, which lets the craft figure out where it is & where it's going); some reports say a problem with the main engine. There was also a telemetry glitch which might indicate a computer problem. But regardless, it's pretty clear it failed to finish the landing burn and came in far too fast to survive.
Space is hard
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2019-04-11, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
So, they sent a device out of the atmosphere into orbit, got an orbital transition to the moon, orbited the moon, and then de-orbited.
Id call all that a smashing success, and a definite achievement for the organization that did it all. The last phase was less of a success, but they ARE still the 4th country to contact the moon (and I'm assuming the first private organization), just not in the way they'd hoped.
Turn that frown upside down!Last edited by Peelee; 2019-04-11 at 08:10 PM.
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2019-04-12, 12:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-12, 04:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
Vindication for all of us that have played Kerbal Space Program and done exactly that same thing.
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2019-04-12, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
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2019-04-12, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
No, it's the first unintentional moon crash in a while. There was an intentional one not that far back.
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2019-04-12, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
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2019-04-12, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
I don't think it's really just "believed lost", I've seen someone analyze the telemetry and apparently ,it had some few hundred meters per second horizontal velocity left. It's a smear on the moon, now, not just a crash.
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2019-04-12, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Canadia
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2019-04-12, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
Re: Israeli Moon Landing... aaaaand it's gone
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2019-04-13, 02:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-13, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Bristol, UK