SpaceIL’s engineering team and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) this evening at 5:17 pm Israel time conducted the most critical manveuver to date of Beresheet’s journey to the moon – the Lunar Capture. This maneuver enabled the spacecraft to be captured by the moon’s gravity and begin orbiting the moon – and with the moon, orbiting…
UPDATE: Israel’s inaugural voyage to the moon – the world’s first privately funded lunar mission – launched successfully on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 8:45 pm. ET from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The spacecraft successfully disengaged from the SpaceX Falcon 9 at around 60,000 kilometers above Earth’s surface, beginning, under…
PHOTO: Apollo 16 landed on the moon in 1972. Courtesy NASA Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries announced Feb. 18 that Israel’s inaugural voyage to the moon – the world’s first privately funded lunar mission – will begin on Feb. 21 at approximately 8:45 p.m. EST, when the lunar lander “Beresheet” (“In the Beginning”)…
PHOTO: The spacecraft, inside a temperature-controlled shipping container, was loaded into a cargo plane at Ben Gurion Airport and then flown to Florida. Photo by Eliran Avital Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries’ first lunar spacecraft began a historic journey to the moon Jan. 17, when it was transported in a cargo plane…
On Dec. 17 Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries presented a time capsule that will travel to the moon with the first Israeli spacecraft set to launch from Cape Canaveral, FL, in February. The time capsule will travel to the moon inside SpaceIL’s lunar spacecraft. The time capsule consists of three discs, each containing…
PHOTO: President of SpaceIL, Morris Kahn (left) with Canadian businessman Sylvan Adams. SpaceIL announced Nov. 19 that Canadian billionaire and businessman Sylvan Adams, who brought the Giro d’Italia Big Start cycling race to Israel this year, joined the project to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon and contributed $5 million to the…
