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Author: Mike Wall / Source: Space.com (Image: © SpaceIL/IAI) Israel will keep shooting for the moon. The team behind the nation’s Beresheet probe, which crashed during its historic lunar-landing attempt Thursday (April 11), will take another crack at Earth’s nearest neighbor. “We’re going to

Author: Isabel Debre / Source: 13 WTHR Indianapolis YEHUD, Israel (AP) — An Israeli spacecraft crashed into the moon just moments before touchdown, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history Thursday as the first privately funded lunar landing. The spacecraft lost communication with ground

Author: Melanie Lidman / Source: The Times Of Israel Engineers on Friday released preliminary data about what they believe went wrong in the last moments of Beresheet’s flight, a day after the Israeli spacecraft crash-landed on the moon. Engineers believe a technical glitch — likely in the

Лунная миссия Израиля окончилась неудачей. Частный космический аппарат «Берешит», созданный компанией SpaceIL, разбился при посадке на поверхность Луны. По предварительным данным, причиной аварии стало отключение основного двигателя лунохода. «Мы были очень близки к цели, но, к сожалению, не

Author: Tom Nardi / Source: Hackaday Some bittersweet news today as we get word that Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft unfortunately crashed shortly before touchdown on the Moon. According to telemetry received from the spacecraft right up until the final moments, the main engine failed to start