{"id":18507,"date":"2019-04-17T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18507"},"modified":"2019-04-17T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:02:12","slug":"spaceil-diagnosing-landing-failure-and-planning-for-next-lunar-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18507","title":{"rendered":"SpaceIL diagnosing landing failure and planning for next lunar mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attempt by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit.spaceil.com\/\">SpaceIL<\/a>, a private non-profit organization, to land the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technology.spaceil.com\/\">Beresheet<\/a> craft softly on the Moon last week went awry just a few minutes before it was to set down onto the surface. Initial results of an investigation into what went wrong were released today:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here are the findings of the preliminary investigation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beresheet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beresheet<\/a>\u2019s landing maneuver: It appears that during the landing process a command was entered that led to a chain reaction, which caused the main engine to switch off and prevented it from being reactivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/1118423609951834112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The teams of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpaceIL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpaceIL<\/a> and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will continue to investigate what occurred during the mission. In the coming weeks, the final results of the investigation will be released.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/1118423611289886722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonarddavid.com\/israeli-moon-lander-manual-command-caused-crash\/\">Israeli Moon Lander: Manual Command Caused Crash &#8211; LeonardDavid.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/SpaceIL-reveals-preliminary-reasons-behind-Beresheet-crash-587117\">SpaceIL reveals preliminary reasons behind Beresheet crash &#8211; Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spaceil-beresheet.html\">SpaceIL&#8217;s Beresheet Lunar Lander: Israel&#8217;s 1st Trip to the Moon &#8211; Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>** <strong>Final image taken by Beresheet<\/strong> released:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the last picture that Beresheet took, at a distance of 15 kilometers from the surface of the Moon.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beresheet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beresheet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpaceIL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpaceIL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGhNkvg5Qd\">pic.twitter.com\/fGhNkvg5Qd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/1118430821520683008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/1118430821520683008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=18508\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"999,577\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Final Image During Landing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18508\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding.jpg 999w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FinalImageDuringLanding-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>Planning for a second Beresheet mission<\/strong> is now underway:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The dream goes on! Morris Kahn just announced the launching of Beresheet 2.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beresheet2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beresheet2<\/a>.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IsraeltotheMoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IsraeltotheMoon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fHlo3jeQ4W\">pic.twitter.com\/fHlo3jeQ4W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/1117108316554125312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-israel-space-idUKKCN1RP0M0\">Israel plans new moonshot after maiden mission fails &#8211; Reuters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/beresheet-2-project-to-launch-immediately-spaceil-chairman-announces\">Beresheet 2 project to launch immediately, SpaceIL chairman announces &#8211; Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Breaking-News\/SpaceIL-to-take-on-second-Beresheet-project-586766\">Beresheet 2.0 announced by SpaceIL &#8211; Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/15\/18311238\/israel-spaceil-beresheet-lunar-lander-second-try\">Israeli team says it will build a second lunar lander after its first one crashed into the Moon &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-04-17\/why-israel-won-t-give-up-on-a-moon-landing\">Why Israel Won\u2019t Give Up On a Moon Landing &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>** <strong>SpaceIL member participated in an <em>Ask Me Anything<\/em><\/strong> session on reddit this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/space\/comments\/bd34il\/hi_my_name_is_ben_nathaniel_i_work_on_the_team_of\/\">Hi, my name is Ben Nathaniel, I work on the team of Beresheet, the spacecraft that Israel sent to the Moon on April 11 (as you may know the landing didn&#8217;t go so well). Ask Me Anything. &#8211; space\/reddit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>A vast knowledge database on Beresheet<\/strong> may have survived the crash: <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/moon-library-beresheet-crash-wikipedia\/\">There may be a copy of Wikipedia somewhere on the moon. Here&#8217;s how to help find it &#8211; Mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archmission.org\/spaceil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arch Lunar Library<\/a> contains 100GB, or 30 million pages of text and pictures, literally embedded in 25 nickel disks in the tiniest type you can possibly imagine. You don&#8217;t need anything more specialized than a microscope to read it, and the etchings should survive for billions of years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>This library was supposed to be delivered to the surface of the moon \u2014 specifically, the Sea of Serenity \u2014 by Israel&#8217;s Beresheet Mission last week. The bad news: After a glitch that turned its engine off and on again at the worst possible moment, the Beresheet lander smashed into the moon at 300 miles per hour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The good news: Those disks were designed to be indestructible. And the Arch Foundation is all but certain its payload survived the crash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe have either installed the first library on the moon,&#8221; says Arch Mission co-founder Nova Spivack, &#8220;or we have installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1454931973\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1454931973&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=5df859cef2e449dbce652757402bd800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1454931973\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1454931973&amp;asins=1454931973&amp;linkId=55a95bd891d93c78bf42ebfc9fd77ddb&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attempt by SpaceIL, a private non-profit organization, to land the Beresheet craft softly on the Moon last week went awry just a few minutes before it was to set down onto the surface. Initial results of an investigation into what went wrong were released today: Here are the findings of the preliminary investigation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceIL diagnosing landing failure and planning for next lunar mission<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-participation","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4Ov","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16420,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16420","url_meta":{"origin":18507,"position":0},"title":"Video: Israel&#8217;s non-profit SpaceIL project contracts SpaceX for launch of lunar lander","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The non-profit volunteer Israeli organization SpaceIL announced last week that they had contracted SpaceX to launch a small spacecraft\u00a0in December on a Falcon 9 rocket . 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