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Israel's SpaceIL says it won't try second moonshot
SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot.
The company issued a statement Tuesday saying its lunar mission in April has been widely hailed as "an exceptional success," despite crash landing on the moon. It says that "an attempt to repeat a trip to the moon is not enough of a challenge" and will instead search for a different mission.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 26 2019, @08:45PM
SpaceX follows up failures with successes.
The lesson learned here seems to be that it isn't worth $100 million to send some stuff to the Moon.
Now they will go back to the drawing board for at least a few years. They may be able to use a BFR for their next mission.
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