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SpaceIL

IL
commercialFounded 2010
Tel Aviv, Israel
www.spaceil.com/
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Israel's SpaceIL and Japan's ispace crashed while attempting lunar landings.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralMar 17, 2025Review: Lunar Commerce

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralFeb 22, 2024Intuitive Machines lands on the moon

The Beresheet lander built by Israel’s SpaceIL crashed during its descent to the lunar surface in 2019.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralFeb 5, 2024First Intuitive Machines lunar lander mission set for Feb. 14 launch

Israel's SpaceIL crashed during a landing attempt in April 2019, while Japan's ispace also crashed during a landing attempt in April 2023.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJul 17, 2023The Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon is underway

SpaceIL planned a follow-on mission called Beresheet 2 that would deploy two smaller landers from an orbiter.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJul 12, 2023Second Israeli lunar lander faces funding uncertainty

SpaceIL projected using philanthropic donations to fund Beresheet 2.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJul 12, 2023Second Israeli lunar lander faces funding uncertainty

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJul 12, 2023Second Israeli lunar lander faces funding uncertainty

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralSep 14, 2022Ramon.Space and Lulav Space Collaborate to Provide Navigation Solution for the Beresheet 2 Lunar Missions

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralSep 7, 2022Ramon.Space and Lulav Space to Navigate Space IL’s Next Two Lunar Landings

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJun 24, 2022X Prize Foundation studying active debris removal competition

The Sirius avionics will be deployed on the two landers developed and manufactured by SpaceIL for Beresheet 2.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative PlanJun 20, 2022AAC Clyde Space garners million€ avionics contract from Space IL

AAC Clyde Space won a 560,000 EUR contract to supply its Sirius avionics for SpaceIL’s Beresheet 2 moon mission.

Mentioned as: SpaceILOrg RelationshipJun 20, 2022AAC Clyde Space garners million€ avionics contract from Space IL

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2021Beresheet 2 to include two landers and an orbiter

Firefly announced a July 2019 partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries to license the Genesis lander that IAI developed for SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission.

Mentioned as: SpaceILOrg RelationshipFeb 4, 2021Firefly wins NASA CLPS lunar lander contract

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILOrg RelationshipMay 13, 2020OHB and IAI plan commercial lunar lander mission in late 2022

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

SpaceIL posted on 2019-06-25 that it will not build a second lunar lander.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJul 3, 2019SpaceIL and other international ventures revise lunar lander efforts

SpaceIL was one of five finalists for the Google Lunar X Prize when the $20,000,000 grand prize expired in early 2018.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative FinancialJul 3, 2019SpaceIL and other international ventures revise lunar lander efforts

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.

Mentioned as: SpaceILNarrative GeneralJun 29, 2019Rocket Lab launches satellites for Spaceflight

SpaceIL planned comprehensive tests the week following 2019-04-12 to better understand the events that led to the failed landing.

Mentioned as: spaceilNarrative GeneralApr 12, 2019SpaceIL says “chain of events” led to crash of lunar lander
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