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SpaceIL lunar lander mission - 2019
Phil Stooke
post Sep 13 2018, 06:21 AM
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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


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- Phil Stooke   SpaceIL lunar lander mission - 2019   Sep 13 2018, 06:21 AM
- - Phil Stooke   The lander will carry a magnetometer, and landing ...   Sep 13 2018, 07:09 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This illustration shows the sites suggested for Sp...   Sep 23 2018, 05:49 PM
- - nprev   Interesting. Kinda makes me wonder if they're ...   Sep 24 2018, 03:48 AM
- - Phil Stooke   SpaceIL has been running a lander name competition...   Oct 30 2018, 11:46 PM
- - Phil Stooke   A very nice update on SpaceIL at the Planetary Soc...   Nov 8 2018, 05:13 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Follow-on to the naming story - SpaceIL has just t...   Dec 13 2018, 08:05 AM
- - Phil Stooke   This is the new SpaceIL landing area. Launch now ...   Dec 18 2018, 09:29 PM
|- - SpaceListener   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 18 2018, 03:29 P...   Dec 18 2018, 09:41 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 18 2018, 10:29 P...   Dec 28 2018, 12:19 PM
- - Phil Stooke   You are referring to the scale of the map, and as ...   Dec 18 2018, 09:48 PM
- - SpaceListener   To refresh news from SpaceIL http://www.moondaily...   Dec 19 2018, 05:33 PM
- - Thorsten Denk   Launch of SpaceIL's Beresheet Lunar Lander nex...   Feb 19 2019, 08:41 AM
|- - Thorsten Denk   Somewhere (I don't find it anymore ) I read t...   Feb 21 2019, 08:26 AM
- - Paolo   there is a good recap of the mission on the Nature...   Feb 21 2019, 10:45 AM
- - nprev   SpaceIL has successfully separated from the Falcon...   Feb 22 2019, 02:21 AM
- - Phil Stooke   This LPSC abstract: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meeti...   Feb 22 2019, 02:51 AM
- - Thorsten Denk   On this page live.spaceil.com there is a simulatio...   Feb 23 2019, 05:27 PM
- - SpaceListener   News from today, the SpaceIL has failed with the s...   Feb 28 2019, 08:22 PM
- - Explorer1   Looks like the maneuver was redone and went fine, ...   Feb 28 2019, 08:58 PM
- - kenny   Beresheet has conducted its fourth engine firing, ...   Mar 20 2019, 11:30 AM
|- - SpaceListener   Now Beresheet is reaching the fourth apogee earth ...   Mar 20 2019, 03:19 PM
- - kenny   I think it will stay in this Earth orbit, its fina...   Mar 20 2019, 07:23 PM
|- - SpaceListener   The spaceship: Beresheet is about two days away to...   Apr 2 2019, 03:42 PM
- - Phil Stooke   This is the landing area. The 'Aharonson et a...   Apr 4 2019, 12:06 AM
- - SpaceListener   The Bereshet was already captured by the Moon...   Apr 4 2019, 04:00 PM
- - Steve G   A couple of pics from the far side available on IL...   Apr 5 2019, 08:49 PM
- - Explorer1   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA Some ...   Apr 11 2019, 07:10 PM
- - B Bernatchez   Any idea when/if LRO will be imaging the landing s...   Apr 11 2019, 07:13 PM
- - Explorer1   Looks like the main engine failed, and they lost c...   Apr 11 2019, 07:28 PM
- - algorithm   Controlled landing unssucessful, main engine failu...   Apr 11 2019, 07:29 PM
- - algorithm   Final telemetry   Apr 11 2019, 07:42 PM
- - Hungry4info   From this tweet. QUOTE Just received from SpaceIL...   Apr 11 2019, 08:02 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   Just wondering if Phil Stooke will identify the cr...   Apr 11 2019, 09:25 PM
||- - JRehling   I have to say, it somewhat alarmed me to see that ...   Apr 12 2019, 01:26 AM
|- - GoneToPlaid   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Apr 11 2019, 01:02 P...   Apr 14 2019, 03:48 AM
- - marsbug   Well done to them - as I understand it this was fa...   Apr 11 2019, 10:05 PM
- - Explorer1   Yeah, Phil will definitely identify the craters...   Apr 11 2019, 10:14 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   The crater should be Hypatia A. looking North East...   Apr 11 2019, 10:32 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here's the first image, reprojected a bit to h...   Apr 11 2019, 11:41 PM
- - Phil Stooke   And the second. As was said already, it's Hyp...   Apr 11 2019, 11:49 PM
- - John Whitehead   On April 5, Space News reported that the lander fi...   Apr 12 2019, 05:59 AM
|- - Xerxes   QUOTE (John Whitehead @ Apr 12 2019, 12:5...   Apr 12 2019, 02:17 PM
- - Paolo   any idea whether the expected magnetometer data to...   Apr 13 2019, 06:46 AM
- - Phil Stooke   News today: Leonard David reports LRO's LOLA...   Apr 13 2019, 06:43 PM
- - GoneToPlaid   Hypatia A Here is a LRO QuickMap link to match th...   Apr 14 2019, 04:07 AM
- - GoneToPlaid   Beresheet's last photo... My correctly orient...   Apr 14 2019, 04:12 AM
- - GoneToPlaid   LRO QuickMap 2D and 3D screen captures, and QuickM...   Apr 14 2019, 04:31 AM
- - GoneToPlaid   The terrain from Beresheet's last selfie photo...   Apr 14 2019, 04:33 AM
- - Phil Stooke   "https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bd34...   Apr 15 2019, 03:44 AM
|- - Thorsten Denk   Just two questions: Was the (final) orbit perfectl...   Apr 15 2019, 06:50 AM
|- - GoneToPlaid   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 14 2019, 08:44 P...   Apr 15 2019, 06:19 PM
- - Phil Stooke   See the LRO presentation at LEAG last year linked ...   Apr 15 2019, 04:34 PM
|- - GoneToPlaid   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 15 2019, 09:34 A...   Apr 15 2019, 06:51 PM
- - Phil Stooke   You are right! I had mis-remembered that pres...   Apr 15 2019, 10:56 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   There is a new "final picture" from Bere...   Apr 17 2019, 02:48 PM
- - Explorer1   From their Twitter feed: "Here are the findin...   Apr 17 2019, 07:18 PM
- - charborob   Beresheet Crash Site Spotted!   May 15 2019, 02:35 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Yes indeed! Here's a finder map for the c...   May 15 2019, 05:52 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   Seems there will be no Beresheet-2 on the Moon. ...   Jun 27 2019, 11:05 AM
- - JRehling   It turns out this crash may have added some tardig...   Aug 10 2019, 01:17 AM
- - Phil Stooke   There has been a lot of chatter about tardigrades ...   Aug 10 2019, 06:00 AM
- - marsbug   From what I read they can, in their hibernated pt...   Aug 11 2019, 11:08 AM
|- - Explorer1   QUOTE (marsbug @ Aug 11 2019, 07:08 AM) A...   Aug 11 2019, 03:26 PM
- - marsbug   Ok, hang on: The tardigrades are.in their 'sa...   Aug 11 2019, 04:45 PM
|- - JRehling   It seems like a decent future mission would be to ...   Aug 11 2019, 05:01 PM
|- - Thorsten Denk   QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 11 2019, 07:01 PM) ...   Aug 11 2019, 07:45 PM
- - marsbug   It's not my field so I cannot vouch for it, bu...   Aug 11 2019, 08:08 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I don't have the time or the desire to investi...   Aug 26 2019, 09:54 PM
|- - JRehling   Near absolute zero, aren't a few minutes and a...   Aug 27 2019, 04:24 AM
- - marsbug   This is soooo not my area of expertise, but a wee ...   Aug 27 2019, 03:12 PM
- - nprev   Might be time to stop beating a dead tardigrade he...   Aug 28 2019, 01:05 AM
- - marsbug   I've just started teacher training (physics), ...   Aug 30 2019, 10:30 AM
- - Phil Stooke   The LPSC 2020 abstracts are available now (Jan. 31...   Jan 31 2020, 08:55 PM
- - Explorer1   So even if landing was successful, there would not...   Jan 31 2020, 09:43 PM

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