Tag: SpaceIl
Israel, UAE sign agreement to partner on mission to moon in 2024
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement on Wednesday to cooperate on space exploration—specifically, on the “Beresheet 2” mission to the moon scheduled to launch in 2024.
“Beresheet 2” is planning to become...
Israel is $70 million closer to its second lunar mission
From the moment Israel’s “Beresheet” unmanned lunar crashed on the Moon in April 2019, project leaders and backers pledged to try again.
Now the “Beresheet 2” mission is getting closer to reality, as SpaceIL has raised $70 million from entrepreneurs and...
Israel launches second space program to put a lander on the moon
Israel on Wednesday launched its “Beresheet 2” project, the country’s second lunar mission. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted the ceremony, which was joined online by schoolchildren, students and volunteers from six space centers around...
NASA releases photographs of ‘Beresheet’ lunar crash
NASA released pictures Wednesday of the moon after Israel’s “Beresheet” spacecraft crashed on the moon last month.
“The cameras captured a dark smudge, about 10 meters wide, that indicates the point of impact,” said NASA....
XPRIZE to award $1 million to SpaceIL for orbiting moon
The nonprofit organization XPRIZE announced on Friday that it will award SpaceIL with a $1 million award for being just the seventh nation to orbit the moon, despite not landing on the moonon Thursday after a failure...
Mission (almost) accomplished: Israel’s ‘Beresheet’ spacecraft crashes into surface of moon
In the end, the Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” did not land on the moon on Thursday after a failure in its main engine just before touchdown that caused it to crash into the lunar surface.
“Beresheet,”...
WATCH: Israel gears up for moon landing, to be broadcast live from SpaceIL control...
The Israeli spacecraft “Beresheet” prepared to make history on Thursday night, making Israel the fourth country on the planet to have landed a spacecraft on the Moon.
“Beresheet,” named after the first word and the...
Ahead of moon mission, SpaceIL transports first Israeli spacecraft to Florida
Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s first lunar spacecraft began a historic journey to the moon on Jan. 17, when it was transported in a cargo plane from Ben-Gurion International Airport to...
Israel to send time capsule in historic mission to the moon
Israel will send a time capsule along with an Israeli spacecraft on the Jewish state’s first mission to the moon in 2019.
The capsule will consist of the Bible, pictures of Israeli symbols like the flag, Israeli...
Israel set to land spacecraft on the moon in early 2019
Israel will be the fourth nation on the planet to land a spacecraft on the moon, when its SpaceIL touches down on Earth’s only natural satellite on Feb. 13, 2019.
The other countries to have...