{"id":63683,"date":"2018-09-04T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63683"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:06:30","slug":"04-05-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63683","title":{"rendered":"Israel to launch rocket to the moon in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/wp-content\/themes\/rgb\/images\/israel21c270-64px.png\" alt=\"Israel21c\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/israel-to-launch-rocket-to-the-moon-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel to launch rocket to the moon in December<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Abigail Klein Leichman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SpaceIL\u2019s lunar module will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and land on the moon two months later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocIOH1xbZvs\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Determined to continue its race to the moon despite the expiration of the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition last March, Israel\u2019s nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceil.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SpaceIL<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0announced plans to launch its unmanned module on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida in mid-December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">If the module reaches the moon as expected on February 13, 2019, it will make history as the smallest and first privately funded unmanned spacecraft to land on the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cOur mission was never about winning the prize money \u2013 although $20 million would have been nice,\u201d said SpaceIL CEO Ido Anteby. \u201cIt\u2019s about showing the next generation that anything is possible \u2013 that even our small country can push the limits of imagination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On July 10, SpaceIL gave the press its first look inside the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) MABAT Space facility in Yehud near Israel\u2019s airport, where the nonprofit organization has been collaborating with IAI for eight years to build the 1,322-pound (600-kilogram) spacecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Until now, only three world superpowers \u2014 the United States, Russia, and China \u2014 have achieved controlled lunar landings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Lacking the resources of those superpowers, SpaceIL turned to private donors to fund the project. SpaceIL was the first of 16 Google Lunar XPRIZE competitors to sign a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/spaceil-is-1st-google-lunar-xprize-team-to-book-ride-to-moon\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>launch contract<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>and one of only five teams to reach the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/israeli-team-named-finalist-in-international-race-to-moon\/\">finals<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Approximately $88 million was invested in the spacecraft\u2019s development and construction. SpaceIL President Morris Kahn has donated about $27 million to the effort and decided to proceed even after the contest deadline passed and effectively ended without any finalists achieving the goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAfter eight challenging years, I am filled with pride that the first Israeli spacecraft, which is in its final construction and testing phases, will soon be making its way to the moon,\u201d said Kahn. \u201cI have experienced numerous challenges in my life, but this was the greatest challenge of all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kahn said the lunar launch \u201cwill fill Israel, in its 70th year, with pride. It is a national accomplishment that will put us on the world\u2019s space map.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.israel21c.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spaceIL-team.jpg\" width=\"50%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>From left, Aviad Shmaryahu of the Israel Space Agency; SpaceIL founders Yariv Bash and Kfir Damari; philanthropist Morris Kahn, SpaceIL CEO Ido Anteby; and head of IAI\u2019s space division Ofer Doron. Photo courtesy of Space IL<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The craft and the journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The spacecraft\u2019s design and development process began in 2013, two years after Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari and Yonatan Winetraub founded SpaceIL and registered for the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. Construction began at the IAI MABAT Plant last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the coming months, the Israeli spacecraft will undergo intensive checks and tests at IAI to prove that it can withstand the launch, flight and landing conditions, said Anteby.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">The dimensions of the spacecraft are 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) high and 2 meters (6.5 feet) in diameter. The fuel it will carry will comprise some 75 percent of its total 600kg weight. Its maximum speed will reach more than 10 kilometers per second (36,000 kilometers, or nearly 22,370 miles, per hour).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anteby said the SpaceIL craft \u2013 bearing an Israeli flag \u2014 will disengage from the launch rocket at an altitude of 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) and will begin orbiting Earth in elliptical orbits. Upon receipt of a command from the control room, the spacecraft will enter a higher-altitude elliptical orbit around Earth, which will reach a point near the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">At this point, it will ignite its engines and reduce its speed to allow the moon\u2019s gravity to capture it. It will then begin orbiting the moon, until the appropriate time to begin the landing process. This process will be executed autonomously by the spacecraft\u2019s navigation control system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The entire journey, from launch to landing, will last approximately two months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">SpaceIL\u2019s module is to take photos and video of the landing site and measure the moon\u2019s magnetic field as part of a scientific experiment designed by Weizmann Institute researchers. The data will be transmitted to the IAI control room during the two days following the landing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The program has always had STEM education as a secondary goal, aiming to encourage Israeli children to choose to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics. With the help of a broad network of volunteers, SpaceIL has already made presentations to about 900,000 children nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">For children from any country, SpaceIL introduced its\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/kids.spaceil.com\/en\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Moon Kids<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0website in English, chock full of fun interactive content about the moon and outer space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IAI has been a full partner in the project from its inception. Over the years, additional partners from the private sector, government companies and academia have joined, including Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel Space Agency; the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space; Bezeq and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">IAI CEO Josef Weiss said he regards the launch of the first Israeli spacecraft to the moon as an example of the amazing capabilities once can reach in civilian space activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe State of Israel, which is already firmly planted in the realm of space in its military activity, must harness resources for the benefit of civilian space, which is an engine of innovation, technology, education and groundbreaking around the world,\u201d said Weiss.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>For more information about SpaceIL, click\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceil.com\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel to launch rocket to the moon in December Abigail Klein Leichman SpaceIL\u2019s lunar module will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and land on the moon two months later. 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