SpaceIL is an Israeli non-profit organization founded in 2011 that aimed to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon. As a competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize, SpaceIL launched the Beresheet lander in 2019, which unfortunately crashed during its landing attempt, though it made Israel the seventh country to enter lunar orbit. While their Beresheet 2 mission is currently on hold due to funding issues, SpaceIL continues its educational initiatives and aims to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. SpaceIL has partnered with organizations like Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the Israel Space Agency (ISA).
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Israel's SpaceIL and Japan's ispace crashed while attempting lunar landings.
The Beresheet lander built by Israel Aerospace Industries for SpaceIL crashed on final descent in April 2019 after an inertial measurement unit malfunction triggered a cascade of resets that shut down the main engine.
The Beresheet lander built by Israel’s SpaceIL crashed during its descent to the lunar surface in 2019.
Israel's SpaceIL crashed during a landing attempt in April 2019, while Japan's ispace also crashed during a landing attempt in April 2023.
SpaceIL planned a follow-on mission called Beresheet 2 that would deploy two smaller landers from an orbiter.
SpaceIL indicated it would seek alternative funding to continue Beresheet 2 but has provided no public updates on those efforts since the donor payments were halted.
SpaceIL projected using philanthropic donations to fund Beresheet 2.
SpaceIL is developing the Beresheet 2 lunar missions with the aim of performing a double landing on the Moon and continuing in orbit for five years as a platform for science education activities.
SpaceIL is developing the Beresheet 2 lunar missions with an aim to perform a double landing on the Moon and continue in orbit for five years as a platform for science education activities.
The Google Lunar X Prize awarded several small milestone prizes and a $1,000,000 Moonshot Award to SpaceIL, whose 2019 lunar landing attempt crashed.
AAC Clyde Space won a 560,000 EUR contract to supply its Sirius avionics for SpaceIL’s Beresheet 2 moon mission.
The Sirius avionics will be deployed on the two landers developed and manufactured by SpaceIL for Beresheet 2.
Under the memorandum of understanding, the U.A.E. will develop instruments to fly on the Beresheet 2 landers.
A memorandum of understanding between SpaceIL and the U.A.E. Space Agency was signed on 2021-10-20 during Space Week events at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Firefly announced a July 2019 partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries to license the Genesis lander that IAI developed for SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission.
Under the Lunar Surface Access Service program OHB will serve as the prime contractor and handle payloads while Israel Aerospace Industries will provide a lander based on the design of SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lunar lander for the non-profit SpaceIL, and the lander crashed on the moon's surface in April 2019.
SpaceIL was one of five finalists for the Google Lunar X Prize when the $20,000,000 grand prize expired in early 2018.
SpaceIL posted on 2019-06-25 that it will not build a second lunar lander.
The 2019-06-29 launch was Spaceflight’s third mission of 2019 following a February mission that launched SpaceIL’s Beresheet as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 and a March mission that launched 21 satellites as secondary payloads on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.