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ELI5: Why they say that Israel would have been the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon and why they call it low cost?



The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InWhy did the Russians never land on the Moon?Would it have been possible to have sent the Space Shuttle around the Moon?Why does Pluto have a molten core and the Moon does not?Would an asteroid collision affect Moon's orbit, and what consequence would that have for Earth?Was there a Moon landing mission that the astronauts had to land by hand?Why not land Red Dragon on the Moon?Why don't we have a base on the moon?With today's technology, how much would it cost to put a man on the Moon again?Did NASA remove four major photographic atlases of the Moon from its Technical Report Server? Gone for good, or just hype?Why did China land a rover on the moon?










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In the news they say that




Israel hoped to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Only government space agencies from the former Soviet Union, the US and China have made successful Moon landings.




E.g. haaretz, BBC



Why they don't mention the Indian Chandrayaan-1?



The BBC article that I quote here even provides a picture from NASA with the list of successful moon landings that includes a station from India.



Another question: why they call it low cost? According to the same BBC article,




The project has cost about $100m (£76m) and has paved the way for
future low-cost lunar exploration.




Wikipedia says that the cost of the Chandrayaan-1 project was US$54 million.



Disclaimer: I am not an Indian.










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    It's a good point you make. Presumably they are talking about soft landers, not impactors, though.
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$begingroup$


In the news they say that




Israel hoped to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Only government space agencies from the former Soviet Union, the US and China have made successful Moon landings.




E.g. haaretz, BBC



Why they don't mention the Indian Chandrayaan-1?



The BBC article that I quote here even provides a picture from NASA with the list of successful moon landings that includes a station from India.



Another question: why they call it low cost? According to the same BBC article,




The project has cost about $100m (£76m) and has paved the way for
future low-cost lunar exploration.




Wikipedia says that the cost of the Chandrayaan-1 project was US$54 million.



Disclaimer: I am not an Indian.










share|improve this question







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  • $begingroup$
    It's a good point you make. Presumably they are talking about soft landers, not impactors, though.
    $endgroup$
    – Organic Marble
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In the news they say that




Israel hoped to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Only government space agencies from the former Soviet Union, the US and China have made successful Moon landings.




E.g. haaretz, BBC



Why they don't mention the Indian Chandrayaan-1?



The BBC article that I quote here even provides a picture from NASA with the list of successful moon landings that includes a station from India.



Another question: why they call it low cost? According to the same BBC article,




The project has cost about $100m (£76m) and has paved the way for
future low-cost lunar exploration.




Wikipedia says that the cost of the Chandrayaan-1 project was US$54 million.



Disclaimer: I am not an Indian.










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In the news they say that




Israel hoped to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Only government space agencies from the former Soviet Union, the US and China have made successful Moon landings.




E.g. haaretz, BBC



Why they don't mention the Indian Chandrayaan-1?



The BBC article that I quote here even provides a picture from NASA with the list of successful moon landings that includes a station from India.



Another question: why they call it low cost? According to the same BBC article,




The project has cost about $100m (£76m) and has paved the way for
future low-cost lunar exploration.




Wikipedia says that the cost of the Chandrayaan-1 project was US$54 million.



Disclaimer: I am not an Indian.







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    It's a good point you make. Presumably they are talking about soft landers, not impactors, though.
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  • $begingroup$
    It's a good point you make. Presumably they are talking about soft landers, not impactors, though.
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    – Organic Marble
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It's a good point you make. Presumably they are talking about soft landers, not impactors, though.
$endgroup$
– Organic Marble
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Chandrayaan-1 hit the Moon at high speed and did not survive its "landing", which would have been much more difficult to engineer. (Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which will actually land, is expected to cost $125 million and has taken more than ten years so far, as opposed to the three years for Chandrayaan-1.)



As far as cost goes, besides India's own (still unlaunched) soft lander that costs $25 million more than Israel's attempt, compare the costs of the US Surveyor program. NASA spent $469 million in the mid 1960s to launch seven probes, five of which successfully landed. Most of that money went to developing the technology needed for all the probes to work, and each probe cost a small fraction of that to actually build. Adjusting that amount for inflation, you get almost $3.8 billion in 2019 dollars. So if we had to start from 1960s technology and launch a new probe to land on the Moon, the cost would probably be somewhere around there. That's nearly forty times the pricetag on Israel's project.






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    Chandrayaan-1 hit the Moon at high speed and did not survive its "landing", which would have been much more difficult to engineer. (Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which will actually land, is expected to cost $125 million and has taken more than ten years so far, as opposed to the three years for Chandrayaan-1.)



    As far as cost goes, besides India's own (still unlaunched) soft lander that costs $25 million more than Israel's attempt, compare the costs of the US Surveyor program. NASA spent $469 million in the mid 1960s to launch seven probes, five of which successfully landed. Most of that money went to developing the technology needed for all the probes to work, and each probe cost a small fraction of that to actually build. Adjusting that amount for inflation, you get almost $3.8 billion in 2019 dollars. So if we had to start from 1960s technology and launch a new probe to land on the Moon, the cost would probably be somewhere around there. That's nearly forty times the pricetag on Israel's project.






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      Chandrayaan-1 hit the Moon at high speed and did not survive its "landing", which would have been much more difficult to engineer. (Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which will actually land, is expected to cost $125 million and has taken more than ten years so far, as opposed to the three years for Chandrayaan-1.)



      As far as cost goes, besides India's own (still unlaunched) soft lander that costs $25 million more than Israel's attempt, compare the costs of the US Surveyor program. NASA spent $469 million in the mid 1960s to launch seven probes, five of which successfully landed. Most of that money went to developing the technology needed for all the probes to work, and each probe cost a small fraction of that to actually build. Adjusting that amount for inflation, you get almost $3.8 billion in 2019 dollars. So if we had to start from 1960s technology and launch a new probe to land on the Moon, the cost would probably be somewhere around there. That's nearly forty times the pricetag on Israel's project.






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        Chandrayaan-1 hit the Moon at high speed and did not survive its "landing", which would have been much more difficult to engineer. (Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which will actually land, is expected to cost $125 million and has taken more than ten years so far, as opposed to the three years for Chandrayaan-1.)



        As far as cost goes, besides India's own (still unlaunched) soft lander that costs $25 million more than Israel's attempt, compare the costs of the US Surveyor program. NASA spent $469 million in the mid 1960s to launch seven probes, five of which successfully landed. Most of that money went to developing the technology needed for all the probes to work, and each probe cost a small fraction of that to actually build. Adjusting that amount for inflation, you get almost $3.8 billion in 2019 dollars. So if we had to start from 1960s technology and launch a new probe to land on the Moon, the cost would probably be somewhere around there. That's nearly forty times the pricetag on Israel's project.






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        Chandrayaan-1 hit the Moon at high speed and did not survive its "landing", which would have been much more difficult to engineer. (Its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which will actually land, is expected to cost $125 million and has taken more than ten years so far, as opposed to the three years for Chandrayaan-1.)



        As far as cost goes, besides India's own (still unlaunched) soft lander that costs $25 million more than Israel's attempt, compare the costs of the US Surveyor program. NASA spent $469 million in the mid 1960s to launch seven probes, five of which successfully landed. Most of that money went to developing the technology needed for all the probes to work, and each probe cost a small fraction of that to actually build. Adjusting that amount for inflation, you get almost $3.8 billion in 2019 dollars. So if we had to start from 1960s technology and launch a new probe to land on the Moon, the cost would probably be somewhere around there. That's nearly forty times the pricetag on Israel's project.







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