SpaceIL

Also known as Space IL

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.

Key facts

Organization.name: SpaceIL
Organization.logo: SpaceIL.svg
Organization.logo_alt: A black outline of a circle cut through by two blue lines passing around it appears alongside a print of the words "Space" in black and "IL" in blue
Organization.image: Tel Aviv University, Engineering Faculty.jpg
Organization.alt: A traditional Israeli architecture building with palm trees in front
Organization.caption: Engineering faculty at Tel Aviv University, where SpaceIL is based
Organization.founders: Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub
Organization.founding_location: Israel
Organization.type: Non-profit
Organization.status: Active
Organization.purpose: Promote STEM by building a robotic lunar lander
Organization.headquarters: Israel
Organization.location: Engineering School, Tel Aviv University
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Organization.board_of_directors: Morris Kahn (Chairman), Ido Anteby (CEO), Daniel Zajfman, Arie Halsband, Isaac Ben-Israel, Kobi Levi, Ilan Lior, Lynne Harrison
Organization.budget: $100,000,000

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Employees: 30
Official website: www.visit.spaceil.com/?lang=he
Image: Tel Aviv University, Engineering Faculty.jpg

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Commons category: Space IL
inception: 2011-00-00
social media followers: 10600

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History
Founders and supporters
''Beresheet''
Payload
Propulsion
Launch
Landing plan
Failed landing
''Beresheet 2''
References
External links

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 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. 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. 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.