Israeli organization working on landing a spacecraft on the moon
SpaceIL
Engineering faculty at Tel Aviv University, where SpaceIL is based
Formation
2011; 13 years ago (2011)
Founders
Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub
Founded at
Israel
Type
Non-profit
Legal status
Active
Purpose
Promote STEM by building a robotic lunar lander
Headquarters
Israel
Location
Engineering School, Tel Aviv University
Board of directors
Morris Kahn (Chairman), Ido Anteby (CEO), Daniel Zajfman, Arie Halsband, Isaac Ben-Israel, Kobi Levi, Ilan Lior, Lynne Harrison
Budget
$100,000,000
Staff (2019)
30 [1]
Website
spaceil.com
SpaceIL[2] is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon.[3]
SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it entered lunar orbit on 4 April 2019 at 14:18 UTC. On 11 April 2019, during the landing procedure, a problem occurred in the final minutes of flight. Communications were lost with the spacecraft, long enough for the braking process to fail, and the vehicle crashed on the lunar surface.[4][5][6] The Beresheet mission had included plans to measure the Moon's magnetic field at the landing site, and was carrying a laser retroreflector, and a "time capsule" containing analog and digital information, created by the Arch Mission Foundation. Beresheet was the first Israeli spacecraft to travel beyond Earth's orbit and was the first privately funded landing on the Moon.[7] Though the spacecraft crashed, Israel became the seventh country to make lunar orbit and the fourth country, after the Soviet Union, the United States, and China to attempt a soft landing on the Moon.[8]
Two days after the failed attempt to soft land on the Moon, SpaceIL announced plans for a second attempt, Beresheet 2.[9]
The SpaceIL team was founded as a nonprofit organization wishing to promote scientific and technological education in Israel.[10] Its total budget for the mission is estimated at US$95 million, provided by Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn and other philanthropists, as well as the Israel Space Agency (ISA).[11]
^SpaceIL Team. Archived 7 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine Accessed on 6 March 2019.
^"Triumphing Challenges on The Way to the Moon - The Incredible Story of SpaceIL (interview with co-founder Kfir Damari on Startup Camel Podcast)". Startup Camel. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
^"One Giant Step for Israel as Company Plots Moon Launch". The Forward. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^Cite error: The named reference nsf20190221 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Pietrobon, Steven (8 December 2018). "United States Commercial ELV Launch Manifest". Retrieved 8 December 2018.
^SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare launch to send a commercial lander to the Moon in 2019. Eric Ralph, Teslarati. 12 September 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference nbc20190214 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference nyt20190221 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"SpaceIL chief: 'Beresheet 2 starts tomorrow; we'll put our flag on the moon'". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
^"SpaceIL | מנחיתים חללית ישראלית ראשונה על הירח". www.spaceil.com. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference BBC 21-02-2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
SpaceIL is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL...
have attempted but failed to achieve soft landings: Israeli private space agency SpaceIL with their Beresheet spacecraft (2019), and Japanese company ispace's...
demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries. Its aims included inspiring youth and...
the public in the partnering countries. The mission was announced by the SpaceIL voluntary association, shortly after the conclusion of the first Beresheet...
31 March 2018. Entering 2018, five teams remained in the competition: SpaceIL, Moon Express, Synergy Moon, TeamIndus, and Team Hakuto, having secured...
cycle of Torah reading Beresheet and Beresheet 2, both lunar landers by SpaceIL "Bereishit", a song by Blue Fringe "Berashith", a 1902 essay by Aleister...
moon. Israel's SpaceIL attempted a robotic lunar landing by its Beresheet lander on 4 April 2019; the attempt failed. As of 2023, SpaceIL has plans for...
vehicle navigation. The SpaceIL is a non-governmental organization made up of multidisciplinary team of Israeli scientists and space aficionados. The organization...
for starting Aladdin Knowledge Systems. He was the Chairman SpaceIL, a non-profit space technology organization competing for the Google Lunar X Prize...
April 2019.. Foust, Jeff (12 April 2019). "SpaceIL says "chain of events" led to crash of lunar lander". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 14 April...
Slava G. Turyshev: From Quantum to Cosmos: Fundamental Physics Research in Space (2009), p. 300 Wagner, R. V.; Speyerer, E. J.; Burns, K. N.; Danton, J.;...
for Google Lunar X Prize-related Lunar launches in 2016: Moon Express SpaceIL Synergy Moon Team Indus Hakuto (ispace) Shackleton Energy Company intends...
Mission Foundation lander without informing the Israeli launch company SpaceIL that they were part of the payload. Collins, Michael (2001-04-03). Carrying...
starting Aladdin Knowledge Systems. He is currently Chairman of SCREEMO and SpaceIL Gilad Margalit (1959–2014), Israeli historian and writer, professor at...
rejoin Columbia. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 13:32 UTC, and it was the...
crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but...
Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut. He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in...
the way for the former's integration into NATO and the EU. February 21 – SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission...
times. The Beresheet lander operated by Israel Aerospace Industries and SpaceIL impacted the Moon on April 11, 2019, after a failed landing attempt. Following...
vehicle along with the satellite Beresheet (2019-009B) Moon lander by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the microsat S5 (2019-009D) by...
1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The program performed several other services beyond...
Command Module America is currently on display at Space Center Houston at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The ascent stage of Lunar...
Cybersecurity co Secret Double Octopus raises $15 m, Globes Israel's SpaceIL One of Five Finalists in Global Race to the Moon, Haaretz Israeli startup...
The National Committee for Space Research (NCSR) was a committee established in 1960 by the Israeli Government in affiliation with the Israel Academy...
Global Information
