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Privately-Funded Moon Mission Will Try Again. 'Lunar Library' May Be On The Moon (space.com)
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has congratulated the team which sent the first privately-funded mission into lunar orbit -- even though it crashed into the surface of the moon. Its final photo was taken Thursday just 7.5 kilometers above the surface of the moon.
But Space.com reports that's not the end of the story: On Saturday Morris Kahn, the billionaire businessman, pilanthropist and SpaceIL president, confirmed that the SpaceIL team is meeting this weekend to begin planning the Beresheet 2.0 mission. "In light of all the support I've got from all over the world, and the wonderful messages of support and encouragement and excitement, I've decided that we're going to actually build a new halalit -- a new spacecraft," Kahn said in a video statement posted on Twitter by SpaceIL. "We're going to put it on the moon, and we're going to complete the mission."
The team behind Beresheet knew all along that the mission's design included risks. In order to keep the spacecraft small enough to piggyback with another spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, the engineering team had to design the craft without any backup systems. Nevertheless, before its ultimate failure, the spacecraft withstood multiple glitches while in Earth orbit and during the early stages of landing.... NASA knows as well as anyone just how difficult spaceflight can be. The moon's surface is littered with dozens of expired spacecraft, and although many ended their missions smoothly, several made unplanned crash landings, including NASA's own Surveyor 2 and 4 missions during the 1960s.
Somewhere in the spacecraft's wreckage are 25 data disks backing up crucial human knowledge that were meant to last one billion years. The group behind the disk notes that "airplane black boxes survive stronger impacts, and our disc is less breakable... It was probably thrown a few kilometers away -- a 30 million page frisbee on the moon."
They're now assembling a team of crash experts, engineers, "and even a treasure hunter or two... to figure out what might remain, and then track it down." Their preliminary response from several experts: their Lunar Library "is definitely on the Moon, and it is also likely to be intact...."
"We have either installed the first library on the moon, or we installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon..."
But Space.com reports that's not the end of the story: On Saturday Morris Kahn, the billionaire businessman, pilanthropist and SpaceIL president, confirmed that the SpaceIL team is meeting this weekend to begin planning the Beresheet 2.0 mission. "In light of all the support I've got from all over the world, and the wonderful messages of support and encouragement and excitement, I've decided that we're going to actually build a new halalit -- a new spacecraft," Kahn said in a video statement posted on Twitter by SpaceIL. "We're going to put it on the moon, and we're going to complete the mission."
The team behind Beresheet knew all along that the mission's design included risks. In order to keep the spacecraft small enough to piggyback with another spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, the engineering team had to design the craft without any backup systems. Nevertheless, before its ultimate failure, the spacecraft withstood multiple glitches while in Earth orbit and during the early stages of landing.... NASA knows as well as anyone just how difficult spaceflight can be. The moon's surface is littered with dozens of expired spacecraft, and although many ended their missions smoothly, several made unplanned crash landings, including NASA's own Surveyor 2 and 4 missions during the 1960s.
Somewhere in the spacecraft's wreckage are 25 data disks backing up crucial human knowledge that were meant to last one billion years. The group behind the disk notes that "airplane black boxes survive stronger impacts, and our disc is less breakable... It was probably thrown a few kilometers away -- a 30 million page frisbee on the moon."
They're now assembling a team of crash experts, engineers, "and even a treasure hunter or two... to figure out what might remain, and then track it down." Their preliminary response from several experts: their Lunar Library "is definitely on the Moon, and it is also likely to be intact...."
"We have either installed the first library on the moon, or we installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon..."
Space is one of the harshest and most demanding environments to write software for. Reliability becomes a very real concern.
Would using a modern programming language like Rust help ensure that the reliability of these space vehicles and space devices is maximized?
For those who don't know about it, because it is pretty cutting edge tech, Rust is a new programming language that is 'Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.'
off my fucking moon.
Too embarrassed to continue talking about Israel's Moon lander and Israeli Moon project, they switch to privately funded as the term du jour.
Spacecraft takes selfie while driving, crashes into moon
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Wonder if they'll figure out we became extinct through religious supported overpopulation.
Read closely. APK's software uploads information about your favorite sites and browsing history to his cloud. It sure sounds like APK doesn't respect your privacy at all. I sure won't be using his software.
what is this amateur hour
The future belongs to those that show up, not those that choose to take no part in the future through offspring.
If only religious people are having babies anymore (which they are) the future is highly religious all over the world, and over-population is no longer the problem - all major nations are facing a crisis of birth rates below the replacement rate.
Can we just ban APK already? He never posts anything useful, just spam about his toy string sorting program. His blacklist is horribly ineffective without wildcards or any type of whitelisting to protect against unknown threats. Any good security professional wouldn't take hosts seriously as a security tool.
Exactly. APK Hosts File Engine is TSA-style security theatre, but provides little actual protection. Any good add-on like Noscript and uMatrix rely heavily on whitelisting. APK's software doesn't do that, and I highly doubt APK even knows what main learning is.
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You know, sometimes I wonder just how many planets and moons throughout the universe are scattered with the remains of civilizations which almost made it and then got wiped out, or wiped themselves out.
Throw away our silly belief we're the only planet which has ever evolved sentient life, and I'm betting there's simply a vast amount of dead civilizations out there.
We ain't that special, and life is just a chemical reaction from common elements. Other species have surely fucked up the odd landing on other planets in their solar system.
"We have either installed the first library on the moon, or we installed the first archaeological ruins of early human attempts to build a library on the moon..."
having a sense of humor about your failures bodes well for future successes, I feel.
-It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Lol?
So, all you need to retrieve the data is a simple optical microscope and an advanced space program.
A flag, 4 robots, a frisbee/library and 20 bags of poo. Am I missing anything?
This mission cost millions of dollars (I'm afraid I don't know the actual cost off the top of my head), yet was completely ruined by the landing engine failing to fire, or to provide sufficient power to land the lander properly. How ridiculous is that?
For the want of a nail, a shoe was lost.
For the want of a shoe, a horse was lost.
For the want of a horse, the battle was lost.
Has any explanation been given as to why or how the engine failed?
Why wasn't the lander transmitting live video, which would have been really helpful, to possibly find out why the engine failed?
This is literally the worst shitpost i have ever seen
It doesn't let me continue to the site if i press "reject all". The only other option is "Accept all" which ain't going to happen, so I guess I'll never read their site...
Can we just ban APK already? He never posts anything useful, just spam about his toy string sorting program. His blacklist is horribly ineffective without wildcards or any type of whitelisting to protect against unknown threats. Any good security professional wouldn't take hosts seriously as a security tool.
He posts stuff about computers and I've never seen him post any Nazi incel shit, so how about we let him keep posting and ban all the other cunts? If you think about it, he's the standard that all you fucking libertarian shit-whistlers should be aspiring to.
... Can you read a thirty year old floppy? Without a drive? Could you decode a .zip file without the spec? or a .jpg?
It's hard enough reading the Domesday book, and that's written in our alphabet only a thousand years ago.
Apparently It "only" costed $100m, and they're getting a bit of honorary money from the lunar X prize. It feels like they could almost crowd-fund a second go at it.
Can you please stop with your daily APK welfare check posts. You don't need to goad him into posting by making parody posts, just mock him whenever he does post.