If SpaceIL’s mission is a success, Israel will become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. Israel’s first mission to the moon, the Beresheet spacecraft, was expected to make a much-awaited touchdown on the Moon Thursday night. Following today’s maneuver Beresheet is again in an elliptical orbit, with its perilune only 15-17 km from the moon’s surface …
Israel's privately-funded lunar lander will attempt to make history this week by touching down on the surface of the moon. It's the first private craft to make the journey, and passed its most crucial test yet last week when it dropped into lunar orbit. On Thursday April 4, 2019, it passed its most crucial test yet: dropping into lunar orbit …
If successful, the mission will be Israel’s first lunar spacecraft and the country’s first private one. Israeli scientists are adding final touches to the country’s first lunar spacecraft, which now has a special passenger as of Monday that will accompany the journey early next year. One of the founders of the nonprofit organisation behind the launch, SpaceIL, compared the time …
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