#beresheet — Public Fediverse posts
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#China 🇨🇳 has four successful #Chang’e robotic landings.
#Failures include #Hakuto-R 🇯🇵, #Beresheet 🇮🇱, #Luna 25 🇷🇺 and #Chandrayaan2 🇮🇳 (#Chandrayaan3 was successful).
#SLIM 🇯🇵, #Odysseus and #Athena 🇺🇸 landed and communicated back to Earth, but all three toppled over after landing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/21/science/blue-ghost-moon-landing.html
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The Japanese mission #HAKUTO-R was supposed to land on the #Moon two days ago, but it is now believed that the spacecraft crashed into the surface. This spacecraft was built by the privately funded company #ispace.
This failure follows on the crash of the #Beresheet lander on April 11 2019 that was built by the private Israeli company #SpaceIL.
This year we will see three more landing attempts by the private US companies #Astrobotics and #IntuitiveMachines.
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#Beresheet
"The #ceremony of installing the disk containing the #LunarLibrary in the #spacecraft was a #publicity stunt. Delivering the spacecraft to the #LaunchSite was also a #show for the #media – from the transport to Ben Gurion #Airport with the completely #unnecessary #police escort, to its loading onto the cargo plane ✈️.
It seems that the #debate over whether #tardigrades can #survive on the #moon has reached well beyond the #space buffs’ circles https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/sciencepanorama/what-happened-beresheet