webfact Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Israel set to join elite lunar club with first mission to moon By Joey Roulette A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Israel's first spacecraft designed to land on the moon is prepared for launch on the first privately-funded lunar mission at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Joe Skipper CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Israel's first spacecraft built to land on the moon was set for launch on Thursday from Florida on a mission that, if successful, would make the Jewish state only the fourth nation to achieve a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface. The unmanned robotic lander dubbed Beresheet - Hebrew for the biblical phrase "in the beginning" - was due for liftoff at 8:45 p.m. EST (0145 GMT Friday) atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by California-based entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. If all goes according to plan, Beresheet, about the size of a dishwasher, will arrive on the near-side of the moon in mid-April following a two-month journey through 4 million miles (6.5 million km) of space. A flight path directly from the Earth to the moon would cover roughly 240,000 miles (386,242 km). Once launched, the spacecraft will enter a gradually widening Earth orbit that will eventually bring the probe within the moon's gravitational pull, setting the stage for a series of additional manoeuvres leading to an automated touchdown. Beresheet was one of three payloads to be carried aloft by the SpaceX rocket. The two others are a telecommunications satellite for Indonesia and an experimental satellite for the U.S. Air Force. So far, only three other nations have carried out controlled "soft" landings on the moon - the United States, the former Soviet Union and China. Spacecraft from several countries, including India's Moon Impact Probe, Japan's SELENE orbiter and a European Space Agency orbital probe called SMART 1, have intentionally crashed on the lunar surface. The U.S. Apollo program tallied six manned missions to the moon - the only ones yet achieved - between 1969 and 1972, with about a dozen more robotic landings combined by the United States and Soviets. China made history in January with its Chang'e 4, the first to touch down on the dark side of the moon. Beresheet would mark the first non-government lunar landing. The 1,290-pound (585 kg) spacecraft was built by Israeli nonprofit space venture SpaceIL and state-owned defence contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with $100 million furnished almost entirely by private donors. SpaceIL officials have said they hope Beresheet will help inspire Israel's defence-focussed space program to pursue more science-oriented missions. Beresheet is designed to spend just two to three days using on-board instruments to photograph its landing site and measure the moon's magnetic field. Data will be relayed via the U.S. space agency NASA's Deep Space Network to SpaceIL's Israel-based ground station Yehud. A series of future moon landings has already been jointly planned by IAI and German's OHB System on behalf of the European Space Agency. (Reporting by Joey Roulette in Cape Canaveral; Editing by Steve Gorman, Bill Berkrot and Cynthia Osterman) -- © Copyright Reuters 2019-02-22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmcleod Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 WHy does a tiny middle Eastern state like Israel need a moon mission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargeezr Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Who from Isreal is going to the moon? What unmanned, this is hardly a news story... More junk on the moons surface, but I guess if some people get up there to live, they can start gathering up some of this stuff to use for their colony. Geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGW Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 54 minutes ago, mlmcleod said: WHy does a tiny middle Eastern state like Israel need a moon mission? They have to spend the money that American taxpayers give them every year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyezhov Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Good for them. If it is like most of their other scientific endeavors, it will wind up being either used to defend us here in the USA, or benefitting some other portion of humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangDoingHisThing69 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 They can easily afford this with the tens of billions in free aid they receive from self-hating governments in the USA, Russia, and the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jingthing Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 WHy does a tiny middle Eastern state like Israel need a moon mission?I would guess that it's related to their existential need to be among the most advanced nations as far as technology. Yes. Defense. Good on Israel. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Who from Isreal is going to the moon? What unmanned, this is hardly a news story... More junk on the moons surface, but I guess if some people get up there to live, they can start gathering up some of this stuff to use for their colony. GeezerIt is definitely news. Good news. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, Jingthing said: It is definitely news. Good news. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Why good news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Why good news?It's a sign that Israel is staying up to date with the world's most advanced technology which bodes well for Israel continuing to exist in the future even with so many enemies near and far. Israel can't afford not to be one of the global leaders in technology. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 2 minutes ago, Jingthing said: It's a sign that Israel is staying up to date with the world's most advanced technology which bodes well for Israel continuing to exist in the future even with so many enemies near and far. Israel can't afford not to be one of the global leaders in technology. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Ok. Reasonable thinking but for the fact that it can only do so as a puppet state of the USA. And more than likely at the behest of the USA . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanemax Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said: Ok. Reasonable thinking but for the fact that it can only do so as a puppet state of the USA. And more than likely at the behest of the USA . Do you really think that the USA controls the Israeli Government and is thus a "puppet state"? Some have even suggested that its actually the other way around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Do you really think that the USA controls the Israeli Government and is thus a "puppet state"? Some have even suggested that its actually the other way aroundNeither is true. They are indeed close allies. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samran Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Good on them. Tech powerhouse well and truely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dumbastheycome Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 1 minute ago, Jingthing said: Foul. Your rhetoric sounds like it comes out of the protocols of the elders of Zion. That's disposable. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app As expected.???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Prissana Pescud Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 9 hours ago, Nyezhov said: Good for them. If it is like most of their other scientific endeavors, it will wind up being either used to defend us here in the USA, or benefitting some other portion of humanity. So your post is about using a moon mission for use in defense or attack. Allah help us, You have lost the plot. It is supposed to be about scientific enquiry such as Japan has just done (landing a probe on a comet 300,000 km from earth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AlexRich Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 If Jeremy Corbyn mysteriously disappears we’ll know where Mossad sent him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabas Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 6:49 PM, Dumbastheycome said: Ok. Reasonable thinking but for the fact that it can only do so as a puppet state of the USA. And more than likely at the behest of the USA . No two countries have cooperated in space more or longer than the United States and Russia. Does that make Russia a puppet of America? Do you know how many EU space projects depend on cooperation with NASA, and visa versa? Are they puppets of each other? From what I know the Israeli moon project is their own weird brain child, they just paid Space X for a boost. Israel has some amazingly high technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 54 minutes ago, rabas said: No two countries have cooperated in space more or longer than the United States and Russia. Does that make Russia a puppet of America? Do you know how many EU space projects depend on cooperation with NASA, and visa versa? Are they puppets of each other? From what I know the Israeli moon project is their own weird brain child, they just paid Space X for a boost. Israel has some amazingly high technology. In previous times yes NASA was a high profile entity due to the Cold War. The Cape C. launch site is now basically a place for hire. The new era of space exploration/ development is now openly commercialized. That is not only because it is no longer a exclusive launch site. But at the time when cooperation in space exploration had it's initial public fascination Russia conceded to the mutual advantage of cooperation in more ways than one. Given that repeating apparent historical "missions" to the moon" in light of the current commercialized era there would need be a question as to the justification of purpose. Some may perceive such comment as being "off topic" simply because it does not laud the achievement as a singular factor. Space X has also been contracted to launch US Air Force "experimental " objects. We are expected to believe the given purpose of "experiment" as a matter of course and for that given purpose may well be true but not in entirety of purpose. A thoughtful consideration of the clever shift from accountable Government funding into the much more obscure " private" sector via contracts does nothing to deny the truth about the weaponization of " Space". Humanity is the eventual puppet of puppeteers and puppet states. That others either in defence , incited to retaliation ,initiating conflict, or supplanting and evidencing a sense of superiority does nothing other to threaten the security of an increasingly naive global population. So in my opinion your question is valid. I consider my response to it as equally valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prissana Pescud Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I hope Netenyahoo is the first pilot and that the mission fail. Scum always rise to the top and he should rise far above us all in space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 12 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said: I hope Netenyahoo is the first pilot and that the mission fail. Scum always rise to the top and he should rise far above us all in space. Netenyahoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanemax Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 12 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said: I hope Netenyahoo is the first pilot and that the mission fail. Scum always rise to the top and he should rise far above us all in space. Did you read the bit about this being an "unmanned" space flight or did you read that bit and consider Netnahyahu to be a shape changing Lizard and therefore NOT a man ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 3:48 AM, mlmcleod said: WHy does a tiny middle Eastern state like Israel need a moon mission? It is part of their satellite and communications technology R&D and allows for Israel to gain experience and knowledge so that it can continue to contribute to space exploration and the International Space Station. Much of the undertaking was financed by private investors. It is also an attempt to come up with alternative uses for the defense industry technology. Why shouldn't the country make an effort to help explore the universe? Canada is a small country, yet it came up with the US Space Shuttle arm technology, the CanadArm which resulted in significant spinoff activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dick dasterdly Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, geriatrickid said: It is part of their satellite and communications technology R&D and allows for Israel to gain experience and knowledge so that it can continue to contribute to space exploration and the International Space Station. Much of the undertaking was financed by private investors. It is also an attempt to come up with alternative uses for the defense industry technology. Why shouldn't the country make an effort to help explore the universe? Canada is a small country, yet it came up with the US Space Shuttle arm technology, the CanadArm which resulted in significant spinoff activity. I missed out on where Canada wasted money by sending a spacecraft to the moon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simple1 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 6:48 PM, mlmcleod said: WHy does a tiny middle Eastern state like Israel need a moon mission? The Israelis have a great track record with hi-tech development and onsale to many countries. However, as mentioned in the OP to "help inspire Israel's defence-focussed space program to pursue more science-oriented missions". Though one would assume there are off the record Defense focussed projects as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prissana Pescud Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/24/2019 at 12:55 PM, sanemax said: Did you read the bit about this being an "unmanned" space flight or did you read that bit and consider Netnahyahu to be a shape changing Lizard and therefore NOT a man ? You got it right. On all accounts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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