{"id":11677,"date":"2015-10-29T17:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11677"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:50:26","slug":"spaceil-books-trip-to-the-moon-video-seminar-on-lunar-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11677","title":{"rendered":"SpaceIL books trip to the Moon + Video: Seminar on lunar elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceIL<\/a> team in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Lunar X PRIZE<\/a> is a volunteer, not-for-profit Israel-based organization that just became the first participant in the GLXP\u00a0to get a verified booking on a rocket:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/press-release\/israeli-google-lunar-xprize-team-first-sign-launch-agreement-private-mission\" target=\"_d\">Israeli Google Lunar XPRIZE Team Is First to Sign Launch Agreement For Private Mission to the Moon On SpaceX Falcon 9 &#8211;\u00a0Google Lunar XPRIZE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s lunar explorer will get into space via\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket in the second half of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0their latest newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=f3d4308be1b5a547f0e56038c&amp;id=1937687c6d&amp;e=dd05694480\" target=\"_d\">We Have Been Waiting for this Moment for Five Years!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video describes how they came up with the new design for the lander, which will use its propulsion system to hop to other spots on the surface:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/niU0NG_z2Ag?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Someday spacecraft and cargo may\u00a0go from an in-space transport node down to and back up from the Moon&#8217;s\u00a0surface via a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_space_elevator\" target=\"_blank\">lunar space elevator<\/a>. Here is a talk about how such an elevator could be built:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.arc.nasa.gov\/p1vckwc2o4u\/?launcher=false&amp;fcsContent=true&amp;pbMode=normal\" target=\"_blank\">Lunar Elevator &#8211; Seminar at NASA Ames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/lunarelevator.com\/liftport-home\/lunar-elevator-3\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Elevator &#8211; LiftPort Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceIL team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE is a volunteer, not-for-profit Israel-based organization that just became the first participant in the GLXP\u00a0to get a verified booking on a rocket:\u00a0Israeli Google Lunar XPRIZE Team Is First to Sign Launch Agreement For Private Mission to the Moon On SpaceX Falcon 9 &#8211;\u00a0Google Lunar XPRIZE. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceIL books trip to the Moon + Video: Seminar on lunar elevators<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,82,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-future","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-32l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17355,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17355","url_meta":{"origin":11677,"position":0},"title":"Israel&#8217;s nonprofit SpaceIL lunar lander mission to include time capsule","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Israeli non-profit SpaceIL organization now expects SpaceX to launch its lunar lander mission in February. 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