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May 15, 2019 · The mission of Beresheet, the first private lunar lander, came to a sudden end on April 11 during its descent to the lunar surface. LRO's orbit first brought that spacecraft over the impact site ...
Apr 11, 2019 · The probe’s landing site, Mare Serenitatis, is in the northern hemisphere of the Moon, close to the landing sites of Apollo 15 and 17, and Lunar 2 and 21. If Beresheet takes photographs on its ...
Assuming that Peregrine will not be able to land, this marks the third failed attempt in a row by a private company to land on the moon – the Beresheet lander crashed to the lunar surface in ...
Feb 21, 2019 · The Beresheet lander is a joint venture between Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL—one of the participants in the Google Lunar X Prize, which challenged private companies to land spacecraft on the moon ...
Dec 18, 2020 · The new Israeli Beresheet 2 moon mission is go for a 2024 landing. Development company SpaceIL announced that work on the mission, a successor to the Beresheet spacecraft that crash-landed on the ...
Apr 11, 2019 · Beresheet, a modest Israeli spacecraft with the audacious aim of making a soft landing on the moon, came close but ultimately failed in its goal on Thursday. The probe crashed on the lunar surface ...
Mar 19, 2019 · Beresheet’s main engine will fire again April 4 to steer into a preliminary orbit around the moon, followed by additional rocket burns to spiral closer to the lunar surface, setting up for ...
