Israel’s moonshot failed to touch down in final seconds
Beresheet, the privately-funded SpaceI-IAE moon project successfully completed all its assigned maneuvers but failed to touch down on the moon. During its six-week voyage, the mooncraft broke out of earth’s orbit to circle the moon in ever decreasing elliptical cycles, reducing speed until it was minutes away from landing on the moon on Thursday night, April 11. The lander had been operating autonomously according to instructions fed into its computer in advance. Then, suddenly, while orbiting the moon at 6,000km/h, shortly before making its schedule autonomous descent, the main engine developed a fault and contact was lost with the control room at Israeli Aerospace Industries. Instead of making a soft landing, Beresheet went into free fall 25km above the surface and 800km from the landing site. The project, which if successful, would have made Israel the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon after the US, Russia and China, took eight years of preparation and an investment of $100m in private funds and donations. Israel will have to settle for being the seventh country in the world to attempt a moon landing and try again.
Why the need to prove Israel is the “equal” of the technological superpowers ?!
If for “fun”, $100 000 000 is very expensive…
Sent it near the supposed landing area of APOLLO 11 and with a rover (with double TV-color cameras)… a lot of people in the entire world would be willing to pay in order to know the truth (an alternative truth or the old one)
Sent it near the supposed landing area of APOLLO 11 and with a rover (with double-stereo TV-color cameras)… a lot of people in the entire world would be willing to pay in order to watch by themselves and know the truth (an alternative truth or the old one).
A MORON like you would say the video is fake.
Get on a ship and take video and GPS of the edge of the Flat Earth. LOL!
The video is not fake, there is data and pictures from the Mossad’s robotic Moon-vehicle confirming it.
The 800km offset in landing was intended, the purpose being echo-detection by the shock waves, just in case some Moon-Palestinians are hiding in deep caves under the surface.
Der Guardian: Zionists Bomb the Moon! Indigenous Lunar Palestinian children, journalists and medics injured and killed in unprovoked Zionist attack!
Hamas saboteurs have done it ..
Was it hacked by the Ruskies, or the Chinese?
George Mallory the famous British mountaineer was asked in 1920 “Why did you climb Mount Everest?”
He replied “Because it’s there”
Go Israel!….. to the moon, and beyond!
Am Yisroel Chai
So proud,
JG
It was the American who sent the failed mission to the moon? not Israel.
Why the need to prove Israel is the “equal” of the technological superpowers ?!
If for “fun”, $100 000 000 is very expensive…
It is about getting experience and expertise, which can be used in other spheres including military one. israel has no resources to dig out and sell, Israel has no large market for home grown consumer goods industries, Israel has no choice but to be technological superpower to earn her living, beyond that we are strongly disliked but tolerated only because we make some things much better than goim, and deemed useful for them.
It was curious how SpaceIL interview with BBC was repeatedly interrupted ad broken into yesterday am – fingerprints of the hacking nation?
typical Israeli driver…. get there fast…. park on the sidewalk
Ah ja ja ja…!!!
Ja ja ja.. Los goim americanos, rusos y chinos lo hicieron mejor!
I am proud of God of Israel.
It’s a shame, I was hoping they’d find a new Palestinian homeland while they were up there.
Pal-e-SWINE is on the Dark Side of the Moon.
No worries – Israel is already the technological leader of the world. And we all know that one day Israel/Zion will be the governmental Head of the Nations, with the entire world looking to Zion for leadership.
Amen
Lesson one for the world: how to use drones on children flying kites.
Lol, you’re so naive you must be one of the “children”!
Nobody holds a candle to the squatter-snipers when it comes to attacking medics, either.
Leadership for the world, indeed.
Sad, but no big deal. How many failures had the Russians, the USA and China before succeeding?
I believe that the main engine failed as the craft was descending from lunar orbit, not prior to the descent phase as the article states.
Welcome to the sixties. Attempting to do something that was done more than 50 years ago and failing miserably.
The Ruskies were sending monkeys in space. Israel could send some Palestinians until they work the bugs out. Lol
Correction: The US and Iran sent monkeys in space. Ruskies sent dogs mostly.
Monkeys are more intelligent and trustworthy than a Pal-e-SWINIAN or their fellow Syrians/Jordanians/Iraqis/Turks.
this is really the dirtiest discrimination I have heard since the Israeli palestinian dispute , and I am sure a lot of israeli agree with me . One thing i will be telling you ; God will never , ever , allow such people to prevail on earth and for sure , mostly , in space
this is really the dirtiest discrimination I have heard since the Israeli palestinian dispute , and I am sure a lot of israeli agree with me . One thing i will be telling you ; God will never , ever , allow such people like you to prevail on earth and for sure , mostly , in space
You have to understand how this page works. First, Mossad tosses out their garbage citing unnamed sources with bad intelligence.
Then the antisemitic brigade of arrogant, ignorant losers comes out to talk about how big and strong the squatters are because they won a war in which they attacked their benefactor more than 50 years ago.
They’re racist, because they’re jealous.
No, its better to send kofim, they are smarter.
Elon failed too, but kept going.
This is how progress is done.
There are going to be a lot of exciting things happening on the Moon
good that Israel will be part of it.
Disappointing yes. But, it still shows, while the Arabs are working on their balloon technology to burn agriculture, the Jews are making drones to fly to the moon. Nothing better shows the great disparity between man and savages.
Exactly right, the difference between men and savages is striking.
The comments should revolve around the lunar mission and not politics. As a Jew, I am disgusted by the mean-spirited racism and denigration of Palestinians and Arabs that are so prevalent in the comments.
to reveal the truth about moon landings…
deep state did not allow it,
this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWX_CffNa-I
Come on guys, be proud of what was accomplished.
Israel managed to make and send a robotic payload all the way to the moon and it even hit at the right spot.
Loss of one critical event, after completing several thousand other complex calculations, remote corrections and timing sequences, and it simply impacted too hard.
Give the team a break, they made it 240,000 on target!
Wonderful accomplishment, you should be proud of Israel.
This is all very sad. The big bad Persians will laugh at us. Probably Putin, too.
To quell my sorrow, I’ll retreat with solemnity. A piggie shall enter me tonight, as mom and dad advised.
If the US really sent men to the Moon in the 60’s and 70’s why are we using upgraded variants of their equipment instead of recreating and engineering everything from scratch and still not have the supposed lift capacity of the Saturn V. I won’t even start on redesigning the Capsule and Lander from scratch again……
^ why are we NOT using
In the beginning if you fail then…nevermind…