Israel’s first lunar probe now has a launch date after a delay since late 2018.
The ambitious project began as part of the Google Lunar XPrize, which in 2010 offered $30 million (25 million euros) in awards to encourage scientists and entrepreneurs to come up with relatively low-cost moon missions.
Although the Google prize expired in March without a winner having reached the moon, Israel’s team pledged to push forward.
The vessel will transmit data to the control center at the Israel Aerospace Industries for two days before its systems shut down.
So far, only the U.S., Russia and China have landed spacecrafts on the moon.
The first Israeli astronaut for NASA was Ilan Ramon, who was among those killed when Space Shuttle Columbia crashed on February 1, 2003.
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To #6 The American space program, returned tens of thousands of dollars to the country, for every dollar invested in it, through developed technology which was then marketed in various products that came from it, as well as directly in jobs in the high tech industries it developed and probably in other ways, as well.
So not investing the money into it is what would be a waste of money.
To #7 The one who mentioned ignorance of physics was saying that poster, #1 was ignorant of physics, ***not*** the scientists who are working on this project, in Israel.
First of all, I am a PHD. Student at Electrical Eng and Physics at Tehnion Israel, my Master and BSc I did at Stanford U.
1. There are carring a Chumash, PM Bibi ask for it.
2. regarding who answered a complete ignorance in physics, please explian, how is this against physics?
Are you aware of how linear and angular velocities are related?
Let them spend on widening the roads and highways throughout Israel so that so many Jews don’t die in car accidents. Waste of money. Looney tunes. Trying to copy other countries who think they will make contact with some UFO.
The money is needed to help the so many poor Israelis and expand housing into the masses of empty land.
Like one of those that sees a ‘sinister plot’ behind everything Jews do.
They are same ones that lie, that the Jews supposedly started all the wars the world has ever had, and all the corruption of all governments, and everything else bad that ever happened.
They are jealous of Jewish success, at anything.
Can we get a Chitas or Tanya up there?
IT IS IN FACT A FACT FINDING MISSION TO SEEK A SUITABLE CRATER FOR A PALISTINIAN STATE
Along with a complete ignorance of physics
They are planting a nuclear device. Just in case. Hashem yishmor. Here is the plan. First, they plant a package containing the nuclear device to float in gravity under the guise of a previous device. That was done already, and its waiting for ismooonuk to arrive. Second, they unsuspectingly pick it up on the way up. No biggie. Just swoop up robotically en route to the moon. Don’t miss that. Lastly, they plant it conveniently on the moon where it can detonate and release tons of whiteness onto the planet. Ehh, we don’t want dis. One love, my brothers. –… Read more »