Lunar mission "Bereshit" - selfie on the background of the Earth

denis-19 March 5, 2019 at 17:30

Lunar mission "Bereshit" - selfie on the background of the Earth

On March 3, 2019, at a distance of 37,600 km from the Earth, the Bereshit on-board camera took an (first) interesting shot, even Australia is clearly visible.

In the continuation of these publications about the lunar mission "Bereshit"

1. Lunar mission "Bereshit" - an online portal with a trajectory simulator and monitoring of current flight parameters.

2. Bereshit lunar mission - engineers at the SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) MCC solved the problems.

The Bereshit on-board camera is an 8-megapixel Imperx Bobcat B3320C with Ruda optics.

And the first shots from this camera should have been taken just during the flight to the moon of the Bereshit apparatus, and then after landing (by the way, this camera will also shoot the landing procedure, of course), if everything works out well, then we plan to capture it on the lunar surface the maximum number of frames how much the camera can make before failure as a result of overheating.

Telemetry and data from the camera of the device in the MCC of the Bereshit project are obtained with the help of colleagues from Sweden and the equipment of the scientific and space center in Kiruna , in northern Sweden.

Now the first official picture from the camera of the Bereshit device has appeared .

Probably, a lot (several) shots had already been received at the SpaceIL MCC from the Bereshit on-board camera, but on March 3, 2019 (the date has been updated at the moment) the first beautiful photograph was taken, which was officially published on March 5, 2019.

In this first picture, the on-board camera of the Bereshit apparatus (clickable) captured a part of the apparatus itself against the background of the Earth (you can see Australia in a blue ball), as well as a sign with Hebrew inscriptions: “Am Israel high” - one of the translation options is “People Israel is alive ”and in English:“ A small country, big dreams. ”

How the tablet withstood the start and the flight process - it would be very interesting to know, since from the photo it looks quite simple in design.

Project managers from the non-profit organization “SpaceIL” note that this image is the most remote photograph ever taken by Israeli equipment from the surface of the Earth.

Since further the apparatus will still move away at the apogee from the Earth after performing new maneuvers on March 7-8, new personnel and new records are yet to come.

Do not forget to follow the Bereshit mission using:

- an online resource with a simulator and real-time data on the current state of the Bereshit mission;