Bad news for the Israeli private Lunar lander mission #Betesheet2 - the millionaire Maurice Kahn is pulling out
#Space #IsraeliSpace #IsraelToTheMoon #SpaceIL
Bad news for the Israeli private Lunar lander mission #Betesheet2 - the millionaire Maurice Kahn is pulling out
#Space #IsraeliSpace #IsraelToTheMoon #SpaceIL
The Japanese mission #HAKUTO-R was supposed to land on the #Moon two days ago, but it is now believed that the spacecraft crashed into the surface. This spacecraft was built by the privately funded company #ispace.
This failure follows on the crash of the #Beresheet lander on April 11 2019 that was built by the private Israeli company #SpaceIL.
This year we will see three more landing attempts by the private US companies #Astrobotics and #IntuitiveMachines.
#Beresheet
"The #ceremony of installing the disk containing the #LunarLibrary in the #spacecraft was a #publicity stunt. Delivering the spacecraft to the #LaunchSite was also a #show for the #media – from the transport to Ben Gurion #Airport with the completely #unnecessary #police escort, to its loading onto the cargo plane ✈️.
It seems that the #debate over whether #tardigrades can #survive on the #moon has reached well beyond the #space buffs’ circles https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/sciencepanorama/what-happened-beresheet
Malfunctions, communication problems, the failed scientific mission, the investigation over possible contamination – and the positive impact of Israel’s first spacecraft to the moon: Previously unpublished information about "Beresheet" mission