When Israel’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades – water bears – aboard. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tardigrades-lunar-library-beresheet-spacecraft-crash-moon…
Tag: SpaceIL
Israel’s SpaceIL says it won’t try second moonshot
SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-israel-spaceil-wont-moonshot.html…
Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crash site spotted on moon
SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit organization, is dedicated to landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon. Beresheet was their first attempt at meeting this goal. While the spacecraft did land, it first touched the surface about 1000 meters per second faster than intended. The mishap occurred late in the descent profile when the main engine failed—resulting in a very low-angle (…
Moon Landing by Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Ends in Crash
The spacecraft’s orbit of the moon was a first for a private effort, but the landing failure highlighted the risks of fast and cheap approaches to space exploration. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landing-beresheet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Israel Wants to Land on the Moon. First Its Spacecraft Needs to Stick the Orbit.
“It’s not a complex maneuver. It’s just not a time to have a sudden small problem. We’ll be nervous.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/science/israel-beresheet-moon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss