SpaceIL lunar lander mission - 2019 |
SpaceIL lunar lander mission - 2019 |
Sep 13 2018, 06:21 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I'm setting this up in preparation for the launch of SpaceIL's lunar mission, probably early next year. They have arranged a rideshare with Spaceflight Industries on a Falcon 9 launch early in 2019. Earlier they were saying launch in December, land on the Moon in February, so now I assume the landing might be delayed until March. This mission was originally going to be part of the Google Lunar X Prize, but that of course is now gone. It might be rekindled with a different sponsor (though I doubt it).
SpaceIL is the first of the GLXP teams to actually make it to a launch. For what it's worth, I expect Astrobotic to fly as well, and I think Team Indus and PTScientists may also get off the ground. I'm hearing things about Moon Express which cause me to doubt its chances. More on landing sites shortly. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 15 2019, 04:34 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
See the LRO presentation at LEAG last year linked near the bottom of this page:
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/leag2018/..._Recordings.pdf (you need Adobe Connect to view it, as unfortunately LEAG only archived the video presentation rather than the PDF of the slides. I would prefer both) The discussion illustrates the geometry of LRO observations of the actual landing with one modelled date in April. Bottom line, no direct observation possible, but the Beresheet orbit is shown as nearly polar and north to south on approach. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 15 2019, 06:51 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 24-February 17 From: California Member No.: 8127 |
See the LRO presentation at LEAG last year linked near the bottom of this page: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/leag2018/..._Recordings.pdf (you need Adobe Connect to view it, as unfortunately LEAG only archived the video presentation rather than the PDF of the slides. I would prefer both) The discussion illustrates the geometry of LRO observations of the actual landing with one modelled date in April. Bottom line, no direct observation possible, but the Beresheet orbit is shown as nearly polar and north to south on approach. Phil Hi Phil, Is the attached image the one you are talking about? I think that the orbits shown in green are the number of LRO orbits which, with off-axis slews, could image Beresheet's landing site if the LRO was in the correct position at the time for the proposed March 14 or April 12 landings. In the right image for April 12, the black line points towards Beresheet's primary landing site (plotted with both a red and black dot), and the red line points towards the alternate primary landing site plotted with a red dot. The other two backup landing sites in the southern hemisphere are also plotted with red dots. Thus the green orbits are not for Beresheet, but instead are for the LRO. At least this is the way that I am interpreting the images for the two dates. |
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