#spaceil — Public Fediverse posts
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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 -
David Copperfield’s secret magic techniques crash-landed on the Moon - The loss of Israel’s Beresheet lander during its descent to the lunar surface was unfortunate, but t... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/clBRuElXiE4/ #davidcopperfield #beresheet #gadgets #spaceil #israel #space #tc
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A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a Moon landing Thursday - Enlarge / Beresheet captured this image of the Moon from an altitude of 500km. (credit: SpaceIL)
... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1489501 #beresheet #science #falcon9 #spaceil #israel #space #nasa