Beresheet is Israel’s privately funded moon lander. It was launched on top of a Falcon 9 by SpaceX 1 and a half month ago.

It was captured in moon orbit on April 4th. It attempted landing today, which failed. The spacecraft is lost.

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    1,554 tar5

    its main engine failed at about 10km above surface

    5.0 years ago
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    Ahh! :( Israel is on my top list for places to go and is one of my favorite new space agencys.

    5.0 years ago
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    @Klosskopf I agree

    5.0 years ago
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    2,443 Klosskopf

    @Lizardman06 I think it still was an excellent livestream. The amount of telemetry delivered was astonishing.
    (they even displayed the temps and fuel mass)

    5.0 years ago
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    So sad I watched it live and had Google translating the Hebrew to English

    +1 5.0 years ago
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    Although that,SpaceIL is still happy that they reached the moon.

    +2 5.0 years ago
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    11.7k KraZIvan

    Oops sorry I didn't know you posted this already, didn't mean to try to steal your thunder

    +1 5.0 years ago

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