Real Life KSP: Beresheet Lunar Mission Video

[Canopus]

Wow what a shame, i was really looking forward to this 

[Nightside]

The title of this thread was actually too accurate in the end.

[Josh IN SPACE]

I'm just stoked it made it as far as it did. That was an exciting landing attempt all the same. Even got one final picture.

What baffles me is how little coverage there was of this mission. A non-government entity putting spacecraft on another body in space should be huge news! Congratulations to SpaceIL for a fantastic job, next time will show itself I'm sure, and hopefully with even more successes.

And yeah, my first lander mission to Duna went basically just like this.

[Ultimate Steve]

31 minutes ago, Josh IN SPACE said:

What baffles me is how little coverage there was of this mission. A non-government entity putting spacecraft on another body in space should be huge news!

Probably because of the black hole and Falcon Heavy launch in the same week.

[StrandedonEarth]

That was a really bad time to need to reboot/reset 

[kerbiloid]

A Windows 10 update.

Edited April 12, 2019 by kerbiloid

[p1t1o]

They put something on the moon, thats a pretty decent achievement in anybody's book.

[Canopus]

13 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

A Windows 10 update.

"It looks like you are trying to land on the Moon.

Would you like help?"

[AngrybobH]

15 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

A Windows 10 update.

 

1 hour ago, Canopus said:

"It looks like you are trying to land on the Moon.

Would you like help?"

My first Mun landing ended in a similar fate but not because of design but because of windows "sticky keys" pop up minimized the game. There were many expletives uttered about the "helpfulness" of windows.

While it sucks that this ship crashed, I agree that they did a real good job getting that far and hope they make another attempt.

 

[ThatGuyWithALongUsername]

7 hours ago, AngrybobH said:

 

My first Mun landing ended in a similar fate but not because of design but because of windows "sticky keys" pop up minimized the game. There were many expletives uttered about the "helpfulness" of windows.

While it sucks that this ship crashed, I agree that they did a real good job getting that far and hope they make another attempt.

 

Hey, at least their landing wasn't foiled by accidentally hitting spacebar... and then reloading a quicksave only to find that they hadn't quicksaved since an earlier attempt they knew couldn't make it... yeah.

[kerbiloid]

Attempt #2

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/04/13/billionaire-morris-kahn-vows-put-beresheet-2-moon/

[hypervelocity]

Beresheet was also carrying the Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library - a 30 million page archive. Per official sources, given the physical properties of the archive and the data from impact, it is believed the payload is intact. This would mean Beresheet's mission of delivering the first commercial payload to the Moon was a success.

[sh1pman]

1 hour ago, hypervelocity said:

Beresheet was also carrying the Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library - a 30 million page archive. Per official sources, given the physical properties of the archive and the data from impact, it is believed the payload is intact. This would mean Beresheet's mission of delivering the first commercial payload to the Moon was a success.

how can something that hit the ground at >900 m/s be intact?

[hypervelocity]

38 minutes ago, sh1pman said:

how can something that hit the ground at >900 m/s be intact?

oh, see, that's easy: it has to be made out of something with a sufficient material strength to endure such impact

[hypervelocity]

NASA payload carried by Beresheet also among the list of probable crash survivors: https://www.space.com/did-nasa-experiment-survive-beresheet-crash.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dlvr.it

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

3 minutes ago, hypervelocity said:

NASA payload carried by Beresheet also among the list of probable crash survivors

 

On 4/15/2019 at 9:00 PM, hypervelocity said:

it is believed the payload is intact. This would mean Beresheet's mission of delivering the first commercial payload to the Moon was a success.

This would mean: no insurance payment, as the object is not damaged..   It's just on the Moon.

 

Edited April 17, 2019 by kerbiloid

[StrandedonEarth]

But it seems no radio transmitters survived. Or maybe it did, but the antenna didn’t. 

[ansaman]

What gets me is that they keep saying: "Was unable to complete the mission" or ANYTHING rather than CRASHED. IT CRASHED...IT HIT THE MOON AND WAS DESTROYED.

[kerbiloid]

2 hours ago, ansaman said:

What gets me is that they keep saying: "Was unable to complete the mission" or ANYTHING rather than CRASHED. IT CRASHED...IT HIT THE MOON AND WAS DESTROYED.

Think positive, it didn't "crash", it performed touchdown on excessively wide landing zone.

[Brotoro]

11 hours ago, ansaman said:

What gets me is that they keep saying: "Was unable to complete the mission" or ANYTHING rather than CRASHED. IT CRASHED...IT HIT THE MOON AND WAS DESTROYED.

One of my favorite parts of an Apollo book was in "Chariots for Apollo: The Making of the Lunar Module" by Charles R. Pellegrino and Joshua Stoff. The chapters detailing the Apollo 11 mission included mention of the Luna 15 probe that was in lunar orbit the same time as the Apollo 11 mission, and how people at NASA were worried that Luna 15 might land, snag some rocks, and get back to Earth before the Apollo 11 crew. Chapter 49 ends after Neil and Buzz are back in the LM trying to get some sleep.

Then comes chapter 50, titled "LUNA 15" which contains only one word:

Crashed.

 

...a writing style I presume ansaman would appreciate.

[kerbiloid]

They are trying to calculate the Beresheet crater and find out the place where the first lunar library can be.

(A relatively short article in Russian with a lot of pictures, so the link is without google translate).

https://habr.com/ru/post/448812/

Spoiler

If they had put a pack of cards, there could be the first lunar card party.

Upd.
A bonus link from this article.
http://przyrbwn.icm.edu.pl/APP/PDF/128/a128z2bp076.pdf

Edited April 21, 2019 by kerbiloid

[Lisias]

On 4/18/2019 at 12:51 PM, ansaman said:

What gets me is that they keep saying: "Was unable to complete the mission" or ANYTHING rather than CRASHED. IT CRASHED...IT HIT THE MOON AND WAS DESTROYED.

No, sir. You are wrong. The probe was merely permanently unassembled on landing, and are currently waiting new mission plans to cope with the current configuration.  

Edited April 21, 2019 by Lisias
better wording! (yeah, no tyops this time!)

[kerbiloid]

Unplanned scattered landing.

[Ultimate Steve]

Unplanned rapid permanent unassembly via lithobraking.

[tater]