Stop arguing! Let's watch

“America”, “Moon”, “Apollo” - in any publication, on any topic, these words are enough to start a multi-day and completely meaningless discussion in the comments. They will remember the flag, the missing stars, radiation, missing soil, flightless rockets - and everything will happen again 100,500 times, and it will end “anyway, I don’t believe them” ... Not tired? I was tired, and I decided to stop this argument by the radical and only true method - to build a spacecraft, and to fly and see for myself! Well, more precisely, I will not fly anywhere, but an automatic satellite equipped with a good camera should go into the orbit of the moon, and make frames that everyone lacks.

Actually, we have already done so:



But these are NASA footage. Some of them are not enough to convincingly.

Therefore, I invited several familiar engineers from the space industry, and related activities, to start their space program. Many supported me, so we started the project:



We have a design engineer, specialists in microelectronics, ballistics, strength, radiation, radio communications ... Many are still needed, but most of all we need funds for a serious start to the project.

Therefore, on Boomstarter, a satellite project for photographing the moon was opened .

So far, very little is needed, by cosmic standards, - 800 thousand rubles. These funds will go only to the project, having prepared which we can answer key questions: by weight, dimensions, features of the orbital dynamics, optical properties, data transmission systems, and, most importantly, the estimated cost of the entire project. (That is, the appearance of the device shown on the logo or in the cartoon should not be oriented at all. After six months it will be completely different.)

This collection of funds and the total amount will show that the project is interesting not only for a couple of dozens of space fans. Therefore, 100 rubles transferred to this case are more expensive than the hottest words of support. You can help with your own head and hands, if you have experience in space activities, or at least repost.

Of course, our project is not only about Apollo. We want to see the Lunokhods, look at the back of the Moon, take pictures of the poles - they found water there , and someday the space race for their development will begin. We will pass all the results to scientists, and put it in the public domain.

The development of such a satellite and the implementation of a flight program in the orbit of the moon will open up great prospects. After all, the result will be a universal inexpensive microsatellite platform equipped with a good telescope, capable of operating in interplanetary space, launched inexpensively, simultaneously launching.



Such devices can be used in the popularization of science, and in education, and in astrophysics, and in planetology, and for the development of technology - it is better to test expensive equipment in parts on cheap satellites ... And it is not necessary to put telescopes on all satellites. You can replace the payload and launch vehicles for other scientific and commercial purposes. “One satellite - one device” - this direction is only emerging in the world. Space agencies are accustomed to healthy “tanks” of a few centners or tons, they are not interested in being distracted by “kids”.

And we are interested!

If you are interested in participating in the first public deep space exploration project in Russia, it is worth supporting the project and / or becoming a part of it. I invite:
geektimes.ru/company/moonmodule
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