I'm not surprised, no one Israeli rocket every landed smoothly on Palestine
Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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#32Re: Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
#33So: first attempt to get to the moon (by them, who are not quite USA or China) and they just fail at the very end. Like getting a silver medal at the Olympics. Yes, sad. But man!
With a population of < 3% of the USA, < 1% of China.
Very important if attempt involves standing on shoulders!
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#34So: first attempt to get to the moon (by them, who are not quite USA or China) and they just fail at the very end. Like getting a silver medal at the Olympics. Yes, sad. But man!
With a population of < 3% of the USA, < 1% of China.
Right, and I'm sure they didn't get any tech or mission critical help from the US.
Don't get me wrong, good on them for doing this, but let's not pretend like this happened in a bubble away from anyone else.
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#35> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
When they said the engine had a problem the altitude was 678m and vertical velocity was 130.1m/s. After restart it was 149m at 134.3m/s. They never had a chance. Assuming those numbers were correct. A few minutes before they had lost the intertial measurement unit.
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#36I was just watching it live, cheering for SpaceIL, it's a pity that the landing was not successful. I was part of the engineering team of the Japanese team Hakuto of the Google Lunar XPRIZE. I always wondered how it would feel to be in the control room at this time, but our launch deal fell through. I can understand what the SpaceIL engineers are going through right now. Congratulations to all the SpaceIL team for re…
Maybe not a success this time, but a lot will be learned. These types of failures are now we learn, adapt, and move forward.
I doubt SpaceIL will be able to use anything they learned. IIUC they are out of money and can't move forward.
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#37It seems that they just got a new word in the dictionary: https://mobile.twitter.com/teamspaceil/status/11163129311033... I find it a bit irritating to be that cocky when it comes to space technology. Better luck next time!
I'm sure/I'd hope the actual engineers on the project wouldn't align to that tweet's wording by the marketing team (aka, they prob wouldn't be that cocky/have phrased it that way themselves).
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#38Why did they not have live video of the landing attempt? Should be double shouldn't it? What was used in the 60s to broadcast the landing?
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#39> On the way down, the main engine cut out. The engine was successfully restarted, but then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back. Definitely a terrible time to have an engine failure :/
then communications were cut off, and no more information was sent back.
Have any of these moon landings been done at night where people have been able to watch it happening through a telescope? Or are things so small at the moon's distance that there'd be nothing to see?
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#40It's hard to conjure much sympathy for a nationalistic boondoggle with little scientific value that's trying to participate in a space race that ended decades ago.
Now, instead of a flag, they have a commemorative crater in the desert. Talk about symbolism...