Beresheet is Israel’s privately funded moon lander. It was launched on top of a Falcon 9 by SpaceX 1 and a half month ago.
It was captured in moon orbit on April 4th. It attempted landing today, which failed. The spacecraft is lost.
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1,726 PlanesofJundroo5.7 years ago
Ahh! :( Israel is on my top list for places to go and is one of my favorite new space agencys.
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2,443 Klosskopf5.7 years ago
@Lizardman06 I think it still was an excellent livestream. The amount of telemetry delivered was astonishing.
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113 Lizardman06+1 5.7 years ago
So sad I watched it live and had Google translating the Hebrew to English
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2,091 AtlantikWall45+2 5.7 years ago
Although that,SpaceIL is still happy that they reached the moon.
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11.7k KraZIvan+1 5.7 years ago
Oops sorry I didn't know you posted this already, didn't mean to try to steal your thunder
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its main engine failed at about 10km above surface