Posted on 12/19/2018 7:47:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
The nonprofit SpaceIL and the government-owned corporation Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which manufactured the spacecraft, announced in a statement Monday (Dec. 17) that the lunar spacecraft, dubbed Beresheet will carry a digital time capsule with Israeli national memorabilia.
SpaceIL’s mission to the moon began as part of the Google Lunar X Prize competition. SpaceIL was the only Israeli team that participated in the competition, which originally offered a first prize of $30 million to the privately-funded team that could put a robotic spacecraft on the moon, move the craft 1,640 feet (500 meters) and have it beam high-definition photos and video back to Earth.
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The time capsule, which consists of three small discs, includes digital files of memorabilia such as Israel's declaration of independence and national anthem, Hebrew songs, the Wayfarer's Prayer (the Jewish prayer for a safe journey), paintings by Israeli children, the Israeli flag, the Bible, Israeli literature, and other tokens of the country's heritage, according to the statement.
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In October, SpaceIL and the Israeli Space Agency established a partnership with NASA, which will help the country to improve its ability to track and communicate with the spacecraft before, during and after its landing on the moon.
After that landing, NASA will be able to precisely locate the spacecraft on the lunar surface using an instrument called a retro-reflector, which reflects laser beams. A magnetometer, which will measure the magnetic field on and above the landing site, was also installed aboard the Israeli spacecraft. That instrument will relay important information to NASA and other teams, according to the statement.
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The moon god worshippers are gonna be upset. At least Obama isn’t president anymore to use NASA to launch a muslim time capsule to the moon in the name of islamic outreach.
Ping.
Interesting. This will surely offend the Palestinians, because the hated Jewish entity is making a permanent settlement on the crescent moon /s
I would hope Israel is developing a heavy launch capability so as to put multiple nucs on the nasty mullahs within the year.
allah fubar Iran needs a whoopin
Would like to follow up on that.
The crater Tycho is an excellent place for a “Palestinian” state. (Oxygen optional)
The crater Tycho is an excellent place for a “Palestinian” state. (Oxygen optional)
So the Zionist entity will occupy Palestinian land by driving a toy across the sacred soil of Palestine and beam back pictures of the oppression it establishes. Will they shove any Palestinian babies they find in ovens? Just like on earth? (/Pali)
Outfit it with a laser which will blink a blue light (the color of Israel) directly at Mecca.
So people doing their next Haj will look up at their moon god, and see a blue Israeli light blinking at them.
Have it send rude messages in Morse code.
The flat Earth Moon landing conspiracy crowd will have a fit!
With no possible way of ever destroying it (at least until non muslims develop common enough moon travel), this will stick in the palisimians craw for a long time
*ping*
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