Why It’ll Take Israel’s Lunar Lander 8 Weeks to Get to the Moon......................It’s flying ‘Standby’?................
Does it stop traveling on the Sabbath?
Originally an X-Prize contestant for a survey hopper.
But the 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet cannot take a direct path to the moon, project team members said, because the lander shared a rocket ride with two other payloads.
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Yep. It can’t carry much propellant so it has to use what it has very efficiently.
8 weeks? Much better than 40 years.
But the 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet cannot take a direct path to the moon, project team members said, because the lander shared a rocket ride with two other payloads. Also aboard the Falcon 9 last night were an Indonesian communications satellite and an experimental U.S. Air Force craft, both of which are making Earth orbit their home.
Another article I read about this said the craft carries a copy of the Torah. Odd the space.com article doesn’t mention that.
Anyone who has played Kerbal Space Program knows that lengthening your orbit by small increments every periapsis is the most fuel efficient way to get a lunar intercept orbit. Since Kerbals don’t need food, water, or oxygen, I leave them up their for weeks sometimes doing these kind of maneuvers to save fuel.
It has to stop to get circumcised on day 8
Among the capsule’s contents is the “Lunar Library,” a collection of materials that includes the full English-language version of Wikipedia.
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Better to have the Free Republic database.
It keeps forgetting stuff and has to keep turning back.
Went out in the front yard last night and watched this baby take off.
Man o man what a beautiful flight.
Very clear sky.
Could see it far after it jettisoned its initial rockets.
Too kool.
Look. If we can change the climate, we can change the position of the sun, moon, and earth, making rocket travel to the moon take only one or two days. A straight path.
All the way the right hand blinker will be on....
“Beresheet will zip around Earth for about six weeks in ever-widening orbits before heading toward its final destination.”
Seriously, it must just BURN the 1.5 billion Moslems that they can’t build a spacecraft, but 1/2 of the world’s Jews could, while simultaneously being vastly militarily superior to them, and having little things like electricity, running water and a working cell phone system that they designed and built all on their own. Just saying....
So we’re taking an Uber to get there....
It’s an adaptation of the Hohmann transfer combined with gravitational assist, i.e., the slingshot maneuver, only it repeatedly slingshots around the earth.
It only took Alice Kramden a few seconds...BANG....ZOOM!