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Apr 10, 2019 · A successful landing will make SpaceIL the first private organization, and Israel the fourth country, to soft-land on the Moon. Though the Google Lunar X Prize has already expired, its parent XPRIZE Foundation recently announced a $1 million "Moonshot award" that SpaceIL will get if Beresheet sticks the landing.
Apr 12, 2019 · The lander was carrying two scientific instruments and a digital time capsule that included a “lunar library.” Despite the hard landing, the mission is a milestone: Beresheet is the closest a ...
SpaceIL [2] is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. [3] SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it entered lunar orbit on 4 April 2019 at 14:18 UTC. On 11 April 2019, during the landing procedure, a ...
Apr 4, 2019 · The lander entered orbit around the moon on April 4, 2019, a first by Israel and a private lunar lander.(Image credit: SpaceIL) Israel just became the seventh nation to orbit the moon. After ...
Jan 8, 2024 · Assuming 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 2019 ...
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 ...
Sep 6, 2019 · While not technically at the lunar south pole, Chandrayaan-2’s target site was by far the southernmost ever selected for a soft lunar landing. The next southernmost lander, China’s Chang’e-4 ...
