Alex Friedman, the director of the control room, was heard saying: "Unfortunately, we will not be the fourth country in the world, but in any case we have reached a tremendous achievement. We were very close to the moon"
Soundtrack recording of the live broadcast - minutes 33 to 39 in the video
Control room: "Do not turn on (the) IMU1"
Ofer Doron, manager of the aerospace industry's space plant, who explained the landing process to the spectators in the hall, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, to the journalists in the nearby amphitheater and to the television viewers: We are currently having a problem with one of our direction control units that measures the direction of the spacecraft. We also lost communication with the NASA ground station. The things are not supposed to be related to each other. Soon the team will decipher."
Then came the call from the control room: Do not turn on (the) IMU2″
A few seconds later, the colors of the circles symbolizing the spacecraft's engines, the large engine and eight small engines, turned gray, signifying the cessation of their operation. Nevertheless, Ofer Doron said a few seconds later, "What you are currently seeing on the screen is not true, we currently do not have telemetry.
A few seconds later, the circles marking the engines were colored orange again, a sign that they were running.
Dr. Ido Entabi, - we passed the 10 km altitude. Our speed dropped below 900 meters per second. Our horizontal speed. I remind you that we need to reach zero speed and then the spaceship will go into a vertical position."
Then a voice from the control room: the main engine is on. We have an increase in gas pressure of 6.5 bar, interesting.
Antavi began by explaining the landing sensor which was interrupted again by reading: Look at the accelerations. The main engine is not on.
Doron: "Maybe we have a problem with the main engine"
Control room: "Reset"
Doron: "The situation does not look good, we are without a main engine"
The control room: "Losing height"
After long seconds of silence Doron said: "Main engine running again."
Applause started in the hall, but Antavi and Doron stopped them. Doron said: "We lost a lot of altitude, our situation is unclear."
Control room: "We lost communication with JPL"
At one point there was still communication through the Swedish company SSE, but a few seconds later the control room announced: We have now lost communication."
Doron (in English): "The main engine is back on but we have no communication with the spacecraft."
Antavi: "We will wait a moment for the evaluations of the control room."
Alex Friedman: "We have a concern that we did not land in the best way. We are currently investigating the matter."
Doron: "We are without communication. It could be that the spaceship is lost to us."
Alex Friedman: Unfortunately, we will not be the fourth country in the world, but in any case we have achieved a tremendous achievement. We were very close to the moon." Another voice from the control room: "We are on the moon." And Friedman continues: "We are over the moon but probably not in the way we wanted and we will check again and want to understand what happened."
Ofer Doron: "Unfortunately, the spacecraft did not reach the moon completely. We made it to the moon. This is a tremendous achievement, we are the seventh country to reach the moon.
Ido Antavi: "Israel reached the moon".
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- Morris Kahn will light a torch on the eve of Independence Day together with the founders of SpaceIL
- SpaceIL chairman Maurice Kahn: will lead the Genesis 2 construction project
- The problem of the three bodies - why, despite the crash, this is a great achievement
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It was out of place.
Itzik Ogan is right!!!
Basically, the ability of precise flight was presented ("Bereshit" covered 7 million km, with an accuracy level of less than a few meters), building a miniaturized spaceship, assembling engines and producing a computer with reliable software. The calculation capabilities of the routes were also proven, including fast real-time calculations of route corrections (such as after the first maneuver was missed) - and no less important is the (relatively) low price of the entire project. The SpaceIL company proved that it is possible to carry out missions of such enormous dimensions in a private way and without the support of a superpower. Everyone also knows what was the failure that caused the crash, so actually repeating the "Bereshit" project (which will be called by its original and very special name: "Bereshit-2") is really unnecessary and will not add anything to existing knowledge and technology.
Why not internalize the (many) lessons that have been accumulated, and send a spacecraft that will also do something (for example, extremely precise measurements of the Earth's magnetic field, which international researchers claim has been changing over the past hundreds of years) - instead of just inflating the egos of politicians and businessmen?
It's really a great achievement even just to circle the moon. But for what
We need to send a spaceship again and invest such an amount, because there is nothing there! A matter of ego???
In Linux it would not happen
Shlomo, you are completely delusional, and the conversation presented here is not complete. There was a reset for all the systems in the spaceship and this caused the loss of updates in it. There were technical glitches at the fault of the operation and open team, next time they will succeed. You don't have to be a conspirator and jump straight to suspicions
Could it be that there was sabotage here?
Disconnected?
No way?
Did someone press a circuit breaker to the off position?
Unfortunately, there are many in the world who simply do not like and are not willing to accept that the "poor Jews" can do the same.
Next time all the media will be in the hands of the Israelis.
and we shall say amen.
If they don't change the operating system it will happen again
Hard work, strenuous and expensive, brought Israel to the sixties of the twentieth century. An important educational value and I wish there would be many more projects of this type, hopefully ending more successfully