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Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
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#42So: 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!
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you read the article it says a SpaceX rocket brought them into space in the first place
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#44Re: Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash
#45It 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!
Pride comes before a fall. (scnr)
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#46As they say, space is hard and SpaceIL is hardly the first to have lost a lander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon
It came tantalizingly close to working, though, and I have high hopes for future attempts. Per aspera ad astra.
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#47It 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!
Contrast with Elon Musk saying the next launch of the Falcon Heavy (today) has a 5-10% chance of failure. [1] This is after it has already successfully launched once.
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#48Do I detect a bit of condescension in NYT's tone? Do we need to remind the numerous failures US & USSR had before they got their space program off the ground? Also, they forgot India who did send a lunar orbiter and sent a probe on Moon's surface back in 2008.
Chandrayaan-1's Moon Impact Probe was an impactor, not a lander.
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#49> 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?
It might be a stretch to call it a landing, but the LCROSS mission maneuvered a Centaur upper stage to a controlled crash on the moon. IIRC it was done at night so that telescopes on Earth could see it, but none actually did.
Actual landers tend to try to land during lunar day, to take advantage of the warmer temperatures and to have sunlight to recharge batteries.
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#50Do I detect a bit of condescension in NYT's tone? Do we need to remind the numerous failures US & USSR had before they got their space program off the ground? Also, they forgot India who did send a lunar orbiter and sent a probe on Moon's surface back in 2008.
I didn't notice any condescension in the article. I thought it was fairly positive towards the mission. Also, India was mentioned in the article.