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2019-12-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli Student-Built Satellite Launched into Space

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Posted by John Frum 2019-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Doesn't Isreal have its own space program? If not, why not?

Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 09:28|| 2019-12-12 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 They do, Mercutio.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-12 15:17|| 2019-12-12 15:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Israel's actually leading in the mid-east space race. The Beresheet thingy didn't go so well like ours, but both our guys in goggle glasses press on, for that unwinnable dark yonder.

The thing where we fling up each others' sats is a friendly exchange mostly. We actually benefit more in the relationship; from their freely shared Israeli innovation and engineering skills, top notch intelligence and support activities, discounted SOTA hardware. The best part is they're the only ones we deal with who are not arseholes about procedure. Every exchange is kept almost informally fraternal. The Langley goombahs and MI6 flat tops often wonder how so much gets accomplished so fast and with zero hassles with Israelis. They bring zero 'baggage' to the job.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-12 15:37|| 2019-12-12 15:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The thing where we fling up each others' sats is a friendly exchange mostly.

Also, sensor comms and control parameter ranging between payload, launch buss and multiple mission controls are multi-lingual normalized and exercised preflight.

Something team MUSK did/could not do.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-12 16:16|| 2019-12-12 16:16|| Front Page Top

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