Israeli Space Missionto the Moon - we have a beagle problem

[anonymous-user]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-478...

Ground breaking in many ways but achieved a similar fate to the Beagle mission to Mars.

[Eric Mc]

I think it crashed whereas Beagle did land in one piece.

[SOL111]

Eric Mc said:

I think it crashed whereas Beagle did land in one piece.

Indeed. I believe, although have not kept up, that images have shown beagle did deploy its solar panels so a relative success. Although with so many single point failures in the system, we may never know exactly what happened.

Either way, both were extremely difficult missions. Mars has a less than 50% success rate. Not sure about the moon though.

Good effort and hopefully they can take the positives and work from there, if they get another crack.

[Eric Mc]

SOL111 said:

Indeed. I believe, although have not kept up, that images have shown beagle did deploy its solar panels so a relative success. Although with so many single point failures in the system, we may never know exactly what happened.

Either way, both were extremely difficult missions. Mars has a less than 50% success rate. Not sure about the moon though.

Good effort and hopefully they can take the positives and work from there, if they get another crack.

The moon has an apparently high failure rate - but the statistics are distorted in that the first attempts to reach the moon date right back to the dawn of the space age - when about 50% of ALL space launches resulted in failure. The Americans and Russians started launching space probes to the moon as early as 1958. The Russians managed to get a picture of the moon's far side in 1959 - a tremendous achievement considering how early in the history of spaceflight this happened.

Luna 3, October 1959.

[MartG]

Israel Airport Authority listed it on their timetable

[MartG]

Graph of the doppler shift of it's radio - which indicates velocity. The gap near the bottom is where telemetry failed - it seems to have stopped decelerating at that point

[Beati Dogu]

After coming so close, they're going to have another go with a moon lander.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/423880/israel-spa...

[MartG]

Article with images of the impact site

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-pictures-isra...