Real Life KSP: Beresheet Lunar Mission Video

[Racescort666]

Well, according to this, Beresheet should have commenced the capture burn.

 

 

[tater]

 

[tater]

 

[Racescort666]

That is so cool. It hits me right in the feels.

[tater]

Live broadcast tomorrow (livestream has a countdown).

[tater]

Timing for (live) landing:

 

[Just Jim]

I can't believe I'm not seeing this anywhere on here.

In 3 hours, the Beresheet lander is landing on the Moon.... and it's supposed to be live on YouTube:

Just a head's up in case anyone was interested

 

 

 

[Geonovast]

I completely forgot about this thing.  I was really worried about that "You know what? I'll just reboot before a manuever." problem, then forgot about it.

[purpleivan]

I knew the landing was coming up in the next few days, but didn't realise today was the day, until I checked Ars Technica when I got home.

Dinner and a moon landing... what could be better.

[Geonovast]

11 minutes ago, purpleivan said:

I knew the landing was coming up in the next few days, but didn't realise today was the day, until I checked Ars Technica when I got home.

Dinner and a moon landing... what could be better.

Dinner, Moon landing, and a perfect FH launch?

 

[tater]

There's already a thread about this:

 

[tater]

Also contains a "Long Now" time capsule. Cool.

 

[Just Jim]

33 minutes ago, tater said:

There's already a thread about this:

 

Oh... OK... My bad. I must have missed it. 

Can we get a moderator to merge these maybe?

[Brotoro]

Video coverage is live now.

[magnemoe]

On 2/22/2019 at 8:29 AM, DerekL1963 said:

Indeed.  It's very hard to actually have things in KSP that are well thought out and carefully engineered because either a) a lot of very important things IRL are abstracted away in KSP, or b) because of the limits of KSP's Lego block building system.  (Or sometimes both.)

KSP is a very useful introduction to some of the very basic concepts, but it's also actively misleading in some respects.  (For example, you never have to worry about keeping your batteries warm - though oddly, you do sometimes have to worry about keeping them cool.)  Contrary to the bromide beloved of many KSP players, you don't actually learn as much as you think you do simply by playing KSP.

This is true, however we can not build the most powerful rocket the world has seen outdoor in KSP. 
 

[lajoswinkler]

I'm watching the stream and it's very sad that no English translator has been included for worldwide audience. Nobody understands them except themselves. Why such isolation?

[MinimumSky5]

It's especially jarring given that their live visualisation has English labels.

But still, good luck everyone!

[cubinator]

5 minutes ago, lajoswinkler said:

I'm watching the stream and it's very sad that no English translator has been included for worldwide audience. Nobody understands them except themselves. Why such isolation?

They have a translator occasionally, at least.

They're about 25 km up.

Edited April 11, 2019 by cubinator

[Brotoro]

Some English for you now.

[cubinator]

Landing burn begins in 1 minute.

[Brotoro]

Past the point of no return for landing.

[purpleivan]

Descending.

Just wish the ocasional interference that sounds like someone sucking the end of a milkshake would stop... keeps making me laugh.

Edited April 11, 2019 by purpleivan

[Brotoro]

Nice picture.

[purpleivan]

Got a feeling I'll be adding some ksp hardware to it at some point

[Brotoro]

Some minor communications problems...shades of Apollo 11!