Manfred Memorial Moon Mission, The first private lunar mission Options

[Phil Stooke]

http://moon.luxspace.lu/

This little spacecraft will be launched as a secondary payload with the Chang'E 5 test vehicle on Thursday 23 October... tomorrow as I write this.

It won't do a lot, but it will loop around the Moon and come back roughly towards Earth - the trajectory will be rather uncertain and it can't be changed, so we don't really know where it will end up, but probably it will burn up in our atmosphere.
It will transmit signals for amateur radio systems to pick up, including some radiation data. The website suggests some contests etc. to be designed around it.

Phil

[Phil Stooke]

4M end of mission is reported:


http://amsat-uk.org/2014/11/11/4m-end-of-mission/



Nov 11 2014

4M – End of Mission

The JT65B amateur radio payload, which successfully completed a lunar flyby, has fallen silent after transmitting for 438 hours.

During the afternoon of November 10 the battery voltage dropped from 13.1V to 12.1V and continued falling. The last signal was received by Rein W6SZ at 01:35 UT on November 11 when the battery voltage had fallen to 8.4 volts.

Ghislain LX2RG posted the following to the Moon Net list:

Here at Luxspace, we have to thank you all for the reports, for the tracking, and we also hope that we provided you with the challenges you expected.

4M may possibly awaken from time to time if illumination becomes better.

We shall now endeavor to prepare the next one.

Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (4M) LX0OHB-4M http://moon.luxspace.lu/blog/

4M Lunar Payload http://amsat-uk.org/2014/10/15/4m-lunar-pa...-keps-released/


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Phil