Seems as though it crashed? The telemetry feed cut out at 149m from the surface. Lots of people with hands on their heads.
A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday
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#42Seems as though it crashed? The telemetry feed cut out at 149m from the surface. Lots of people with hands on their heads.
Yep, they just called it.
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#43Seems as though it crashed? The telemetry feed cut out at 149m from the surface. Lots of people with hands on their heads.
There was a bunch of Hebrew being spoken and then they announced in English that they were not successful.
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#44They crashed. Based on the occasional English commentary during the stream, they had an IMU failure, that recovered, but then a main engine failure right near the end of the descent. They got the engine online again, but just looking the speeds on the telemetry, it was too late.
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#45I took my daughter to this launch (we happened to be vacationing in the area). It was an evening launch and we spent the day at KSC. On the bus tour around the launch pads we happened to sit right behind a couple members of the SpaceIL team (including the chief systems engineer). They were extremely friendly and happy to answer all sorts of questions. Best of luck to the team on this exciting day!
Unfortunately it looks like the landing was unsuccessful.
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#46Even though they crashed, this is still a monumental achievement. For once I agree with Bibi, that if you fail you should try again.
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#47Unfortunately, it crashed. They said they were having problems with the main engine. They restarted it, but as it was restarting it seems as if it gained too much velocity. It seems like the engine started again, but only right before it impacted with the surface at 134 m/s.
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#48Seems as though it crashed? The telemetry feed cut out at 149m from the surface. Lots of people with hands on their heads.
Yeah i was laughing my ass off when I saw the altitude above surface was 0.15 km and the descent rate was 134.3m/s. Still, an achievement was made and I wish them luck in the future. This stuff always has me in awe, no matter the result.
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#49> 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?
Advertising. It has a bunch of logos for the people who financed it. In a way, the US space program is an ad for the US military, but this is more overt.
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#50Any word what imaging or video capabilities are on the lander? Would love to see video from the surface in 4K.
not sure about the camera but the connection is 20 kb/sec