Kahn said these things on the program "Meet the Press" with Rina Mishleh on Channel 12. Positive reactions in the Hal community
"I will lead the project to build Genesis 2, the funding will come from the public." This is what SpaceIL chairman Maurice Kahan said during an interview on the show "Meet the Press" with Rina Mishleh on Channel 12.
"During the weekend I had time to think about what happened and the truth is that seeing all the sympathy and support of people from all over the world is amazing."
"It gave me time to think and I thought it would be a shame to leave it like that and I came to announce a new project - Genesis 2", stated the president of the SpaceIL association. "We started something and we need to complete it. We will complete this project and reach the moon and put our flag on it, I have decided that I am ready to lead the project."
Kahan promised that "as early as tomorrow, a task force will gather and start working." We will receive the funding from donors and the public." When asked about the financing of the additional project, Kahan explained that his plan is to mobilize the people of Israel for the benefit of the project: "Everyone wants to participate, I received an offer from the US from someone rich who offered to pay a lot of money, but I think the money should come from the public. The project should be popular with the State of Israel."
Earlier his reaction was different. On Friday, Kahn said: "Israel reached the moon and the Israeli flag is on the moon, the journey of Genesis is not over." I expect the next generation of Israel to complete the task for us."
The Aerospace Industry responded: "The Aerospace Industry is a center of national knowledge in the fields of space and satellites and serves as the space house of the State of Israel. We are proud of our contribution to the achievements of the Bereshit spacecraft that reached the doorstep of the moon. We would be happy to be part of additional space missions in collaboration with SpaceIL and led by Maurice Kahn."
First findings from the crash
From preliminary data that came from the SpaceIL engineering team and the Aerospace Industry, it seems that a technical fault that occurred in one of the components caused a chain of events during which the main engine stopped working, without the main engine it would not have been possible to brake the spacecraft. However, the spacecraft overcame the malfunction and restarted the main engine. However, at this stage it is no longer possible to slow down the spacecraft's speed and complete the landing as planned. According to preliminary data in the hands of the teams, the initial technical event took place at a height of about 14 km above the surface of the moon. At a range of 150 meters from the ground, when contact with the spacecraft was finally lost, the spacecraft reached a vertical speed of about 500 km/h before hitting the lunar soil.
Next week, comprehensive tests will be carried out in order to fully understand what happened.
Harel Locker, chairman of IAI: "IAI, together with SpaceIL, built the first Israeli spacecraft, Bereshit, which managed to reach a distance of 400 km from Israel and the threshold of the moon. This is a tremendous technological achievement for the State of Israel, which entered the club of the seven powers that came this close to the moon. The project took 8 years and contributed a lot to the Israeli space industry, which is one of the leading in the world. Space is a vast, exciting and inspiring space. The Aerospace Industry is Israel's center of national knowledge in space technology and will continue to lead the State of Israel to technological achievements in this field. The employees and engineers of the aerospace industry work day and night to develop technologies for the benefit of the country and its security. For them the sky is not the limit, it is only the beginning."
A day after the "hard" landing on the moon, Kafir Demari, one of the three founders of SpaceIL, wrote: "We woke up this morning wrapped in love to thousands of messages of encouragement and appreciation. Thanks. It will take a long time to respond to everyone.
"Yesterday, after the hard landing, we went to celebrate into the night, dancing, hugging, talking about such a huge distance in front of such a small distance that remains."
"The journey of SpaceIL and of Bereshit moved multitudes of people. Millions sat yesterday, in Israel and all over the world, glued to the screen at home or at joint viewing events.. Crossed your fingers, prayed and hoped, along with us for a soft landing. But reality is reality, it was not a soft landing. At a speed of over 5000 km/h, we can say that we definitely left our mark on the moon. "
"The truth is, there is also disappointment, we arrived, we saw from afar the promised moment and it did not happen. But as in the story of Moses, even though yesterday we only saw from afar, Israel is yet to land on the moon, we have already come most of the way. "
"The message is important - we reached the moon, we made history, we brought Israel to the moon and made it the seventh country ever to reach it, we launched the first private project in the history of mankind to reach the moon or anywhere else."
"The moment of landing - made another important message clear to everyone, that it is not simple. This is a moment that caused and will cause many parents and educators to talk about what success is, about not being afraid of failure, about perseverance and determination. A moment that at first felt like a miss, but actually left room for the next generation of scientists and engineers, left them with a taste for more and a desire to succeed themselves next time. "
"We received dozens of responses from children who tell us about their ideas and the spaceships they plan to build, about how this moment was a defining moment for them and they want more."
"I am hopeful that this is only the beginning, but as we have already learned from the long journey we have gone through - hope and dreams are not enough.. we have to make it happen.. and we at SpaceIL will continue to work together and with all these students to promote the next spaceships, to make sure that we do not stop dreaming and that we do what needed to make these dreams come true. "
More on the subject on the science website
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As for what is written under the picture, "The second and last picture sent by the Bereshit spacecraft before it crashed on the moon, on April 11, 2019", well it turns out that the picture shown here is the first and before the last picture that "Bereshit" sent. 3 laps were taken before the landing attempt. The last photo is the one published during the broadcast of the landing attempt (which included the Israeli flag).
Following the line of thought of "Just saying":
After all, "Bereshit" spent 6 weeks in space, most of the time outside the Earth's magnetic field - that is, it was exposed to the solar wind and solar flares, and of course also to cosmic radiation - without the protections that are and have been in all space stations up to now (for example, the orbit at a distance of no more than 400-450 km from the surface of the earth, hiding sensitive equipment behind fuel tanks, etc.) - therefore it is very logical that the computers in "Genesis" were badly damaged. This is accumulated damage over a month and a half in space, something that the probes of the USA and Russia also experienced in the missions to Venus and to the vicinity of the Sun. I believe these were the main problems that affected the computers on board "Bereshit", and in the very last ten minutes of the mission they caused the systems to crash and the spacecraft to crash.
Start raising funds from the public, I am ready to donate NIS 200
Why public money??
No education
There is no health system
Be ashamed
Instead of inflating people's egos
(Fly a spaceship to the moon..wow)
Invest the public's money in the public itself
Not a single citizen will benefit from this
I am not interested in participating in the financing.
Put money from your own pocket
I have a family to feed and send to school
I would be happy for this money to go to better places and not just to inflate people's egos.
If you find out if it's from your own pocket or donations, do whatever you want, but in my opinion, there are many others who agree with me. There is no reason for a shekel to come out of public funds for this.
You failed once, you threw all our money in the trash (now they are trying to make a spin, present it as an achievement)
No more
From a statistical point of view, it is difficult to understand how during a long journey that lasted 8 weeks the accelerometer (which according to what is said on the website probably caused the crash) was working properly, and precisely in the last 5 minutes before landing it suddenly stopped working.
In my opinion, it is worth investigating the possibility that the strong yaw before landing (running all engines at full power against the direction of movement) caused the malfunction, it could be that the strong G forces during the yaw caused one of the connectors to come out of its place, or the accelerometer to physically disconnect from its place.
Or maybe the deceleration was so strong that the accelerometer reached its maximum reading and therefore it started reading zero acceleration?
Just a few directions that crossed my mind.