Not exactly a 'private' craft as I understand it...
Can anyone clarify or fix the title?
A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday
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#32I wonder why this news isn’t as widespread as SpaceX launches. I would have loved to follow this from the beginning! Whats the best place to stay updated about this specific mission? - what a time to be alive
You can watch the landing here [1] starting in 90min [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA
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#33> a nascent commercial space effort that seeks to develop a base of economic activity on the Moon Can someone clue me in on what types of commercial activity will happen first?
Science first, but the biggest economic driver will be tourism and sports. Moonball will be the biggest sporting event broadcast on Earth. Jumping 20 feet for the dunk? Yes please. But before team sports, dirtbiking will be a special once-in-a-lifetime moon tourist experience. Going forward, there will be special culinary options due to the excessively large moonfruits that can be grown in low gravity. The trip will…
> Science first, but the biggest economic driver will be tourism and sports.
Tourism for a couple of ultra-rich, yeah, but sports? Need massive structures for that one.
I rather believe that Moon commercial usage will be dominated by resource gathering: mining for rare materials deposited by aeons of asteroid hits, helium-3 (assuming the Moon Nazis from Iron Sky left us anything), or anything that can be chemically converted to rocket fuels in order to provide efficient fueling options for Mars and beyond missions.
Re: A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday
#34I wonder why this news isn’t as widespread as SpaceX launches. I would have loved to follow this from the beginning! Whats the best place to stay updated about this specific mission? - what a time to be alive
There has been news about it for a while. There was some concern of pre-publicizing the attempt if it were to fail.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/science/beresheet-israel-...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/watch-the-historic-first-p...
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18239738/spaceil-bereshee...
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#3550 years late
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#36The live Streaming looks like a state financed program.. the whole politicians there, no english subtitles..
Re: A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday
#37I wonder why this news isn’t as widespread as SpaceX launches. I would have loved to follow this from the beginning! Whats the best place to stay updated about this specific mission? - what a time to be alive
You can watch the landing here [1] starting in 90min [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA
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Re: A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday
#38I wonder why this news isn’t as widespread as SpaceX launches. I would have loved to follow this from the beginning! Whats the best place to stay updated about this specific mission? - what a time to be alive
You can watch the landing here [1] starting in 90min [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Science first, but the biggest economic driver will be tourism and sports. Moonball will be the biggest sporting event broadcast on Earth. Jumping 20 feet for the dunk? Yes please. But before team sports, dirtbiking will be a special once-in-a-lifetime moon tourist experience. Going forward, there will be special culinary options due to the excessively large moonfruits that can be grown in low gravity. The trip will…
> Science first, but the biggest economic driver will be tourism and sports. Tourism for a couple of ultra-rich, yeah, but sports? Need massive structures for that one. I rather believe that Moon commercial usage will be dominated by resource gathering: mining for rare materials deposited by aeons of asteroid hits, helium-3 (assuming the Moon Nazis from Iron Sky left us anything), or anything that can be chemically c…
Look up moon lava tubes. There are huge prebuilt structures on the moon.
Sports create value through mass attention. The moon is more than a passthrough to Mars. The moon is fun and fun is money.
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#40If it's a private spacecraft, how do you make this work financially? How do you find $100m ? It's not like there are commercial opportunities possible on the moon. Or the technology would be re-used by Israel for rockets?
Most of the money is from private donors, some of it is from the government, though that is pretty common -lots of governments give out grants and funding to private organizations for the purpose of cultivating ingenuity or developing certain industries.
As I understand it the major help, and where it had a major advantage on other similar attempts, was by access to advance research and testing facilities of avionics in the IAI (a quasi government company in charge of commercial and military development of avionics). Especially wind tunnels and similar simulators.
That being said, it is still a very much private orginazion