The world’s first privately-funded and operated lunar lander, an entrant in the defunct Google Lunar X-Prize competition, suffered a failure during a landing on the lunar surface. The Beresheet lander (“in the beginning” in Hebrew, so named after an Israel-wide naming competition) was designed and built by SpaceIL from 2011 onwards for the Lunar X-Prize competition, and the project continued when the Lunar X-Prize was ended in 2018 without a winner, or even without an entry flying into space.
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As new lunar race heats up, the Moon answers a centuries old question of craters on Earth
For the second time in as many months, a new mission to the moon is…
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Israel’s first mission to the moon – to launch on a Falcon 9 – delayed a few weeks
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