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Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight’s first move beyond low Earth orbit
The SpaceIL lunar lander weighs 600kg/1323lb. It’s a secondary payload. Primary is thought to be an Indonesian telecom sat PSN 6
It’s unclear to me how the SpaceIL vehicle is going to get into a translunar injection orbit. There is a SpaceIL video embedded in that Geekwire article page. Here’s an image from the video showing the vehicle separating from the F9. It does not make sense to me. The vehicle comes out of the base of a section below the fairing.
That doesn’t look like any F9 ever built. And then the vehicle fires its own engine to send it on its way to the moon?
The SpaceIL lunar lander weighs 600kg/1323lb. It’s a secondary payload. Primary is thought to be an Indonesian telecom sat PSN 6
It’s unclear to me how the SpaceIL vehicle is going to get into a translunar injection orbit. There is a SpaceIL video embedded in that Geekwire article page. Here’s an image from the video showing the vehicle separating from the F9. It does not make sense to me. The vehicle comes out of the base of a section below the fairing.
That doesn’t look like any F9 ever built. And then the vehicle fires its own engine to send it on its way to the moon?