Israel successfully launches its first Moonshot
Israel’s Beresheet robot was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida early Friday, Feb. 22 at 3:45 local time. All the systems were working 40 minutes later and beaming signals to Israeli Aerospace headquarters. The probe is due to land on the moon on April 11. Israel is the fourth nation to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon, the first to launch a mostly privately-funded venture with around $100m raised by the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL. After traveling for two months, the spacecraft is due to touch down on the moon and plant an Israeli flag. In addition to scientific instruments, the Genesis probe carries a copy of the Bible on a small metal disc. Only US, Russian and Chinese government space agencies have previously managed soft touchdowns. If the 1.5m-high, 585kg Beresheet craft can get down safely, it will take photos to send back to Earth and conduct some magnetic investigations. The targeted landing site is in a northern-hemisphere lava plain called Mare Serenitatis, where magnetic anomalies are known to exist. Prof Oded Aharonson, of the Weizmann Institute, leads Beresheet’s science team.
The spacecraft will survive for only about two days before running out of power. However, a laser retroreflector, a mirroring device that requires no power and can be used for space-to-ground communications via NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). NASA contributed the device to this mission as part of an agreement with SpaceIL that would allow the startup company to utilize the DSN for its moon mission.
Baruch HaShem
It’s first time i see someone with beards allow to come near a space vehicle :))) i wonder if United States didn’t help these guys to lunch their vehicle what would happen
Did they resurrect Stanley Kubrick from the dead? Or did spielberg shoot this round of Moon hoax ftg? zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Now there will finally be a deli on the moon when the astronauts go back!
Baruch HaShem
Or a Kosher Chinese restaurant…
It is as if you own the moon, eh? You should know what the Creator of the moon says:
35 This is what the Lord says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the Lord Almighty is his name:
36 “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the Lord,
“will the descendants of Israel ever cease
to be a nation before me.”
37 This is what the Lord says:
“Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel
because of all they have done,”
declares the Lord.
38 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Yeshaya 30
8. Now, come write it on a tablet with them, and on a book engrave it, and it shall be for the last day, forever to eternity.
…
12. Therefore, so said the Holy One of Israel, “Because you have despised this matter, and you have put your trust in oppression and a perverse one, and you have relied upon it.
13. Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach of a falling [wall], revealed in a fortified wall, whose breach will come suddenly.”
14. And He shall break it like the breaking of a potter’s jug, crushed without pity, and in its crushing shall not be found a shard, to scoop fire from a hearth, or to scoop water from a cistern.
Yeshaya 45:9 ” … … Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.
15. For so said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel “With tranquility and restfulness shall you be saved, with quietude and trust shall be your might; but you did not want.
While Israel sends probes to the moon, what have the Palestinians done for making? LEt Tlaib and Omar hate Israel, let them love Palsetinians but what have Palestinians and their leader ever done except worship death.
what do you expect from the adepts of the religion of peace
Liar, it carries the inerrant TaNaKH. So, no Nazarene codicil. Nothing from Sha’ul from Parthenia. Not a jot. So, blah blah blah. Days numbered, jew bllcks.
@mr sham:your days are numbered until our hero Breivik comes out of jail
A country of only eight million individuals can send a spacecraft to the moon. Amazing. I guess the jews are really the chosen people.
Yeah, you’re chosen alright
They say to those who despise Me, “The Lord has spoken, ‘You shall have peace, ‘ ” and [to] everyone who follows the view of his heart they say, “No evil shall befall you.”
זבִּרְצ֣וֹת יְ֖הוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִ֑ישׁ גַּם־א֜וֹיְבָ֗יו יַשְׁלִ֥ם אִתּֽוֹ:
(When the Lord accepts a person’s ways, He will cause even his enemies to make peace with him.)
Devarim 29:18 –
Amazing so much hostility towards such a magnificent achievement. Clearly stems from jealousy and shame. Neither of which is a healthy, truly human response. Sad!!
Using the billions the US is forced to fork over to Israel by AIPAC and the REST of Adelson’s Undzer Shtik for expeditionary wars, moonshots, and Kahanist Yeshivas – thanks Israel we’re done sending you aid.
Time to buy your own healthcare, your own college, and your own somewhere else everything else
Mazal Tov!
It is wonderful to know Israel has the ability to carry out a Moon shot. But there are existential threats to Israel. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to apply this scientific effort toward improving Israel’s missile defense or offense?
Working on these projects enhances the ability to defend. That is why US is starting Space Force. You clearly know little about how science advances.
Elon is from South Africa. The real question is why did ‘Murica hand him our precious space tech so SpaceX could get a head start, and what price was paid. The taxpayer funded decades, and while it is great private space is pushing the envelope of what is possible, it makes you wonder how and why it was THOSE certain people that reaped the windfall.
Two months to get to the Moon? Is it being pulled by oxen? What else will it be doing for the next two months? And what is this interest in magnetic anomalies? Are the Israelis testing some tech stuff concerning magnetism, starting from a long distance, and progressively getting closer to the Moon to perfect whatever they are experimenting with?
Wow. Get out your tinfoil hat. For the record, the Earth’s own magnetic field is fluctuating and moving faster than has ever been recorded. Certain surveys and experiments are best done in non-populated areas, though. Best done on the moon. Also, its a great opportunity to sharpen navigation and propulsion skills.
Otherwise certain idiots might accuse them of getting it from the US. Mankind loves to reinvent the wheel.