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Israeli space mission may have had help from above

Posted on April 7, 2019

Watch from 1hr 5 mins as the SpaceIL team celebrates Lunar Capture. Then keep watching as Morris Kahn and the Arutz 7 article below suggest some extra-terrestrial reasons for the good progress of the mission. https://youtu.be/T-ullrNON-g?t=3907 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/261441

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Seen the launch, now buy the T-shirt

Posted on April 7, 2019

To commemorate the Moon mission of SpaceIL’s Beresheet spaceship, you can now buy SpaceIL merchandise. T-shirts, baseball caps, and a baby overall that says, “I love you to the Moon and back”. Meanwhile Beresheet has just photographed the far side … Continue reading →

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Beresheet achieves Lunar Capture

Posted on April 7, 2019

Amazing scenes as SpaceIL broadcast live the crucial maneuver that successfully placed Israel’s Beresheet spaceship into Lunar orbit at around 17:25 Israel time on 4th April. At its closest, Beresheet is just 460km (about the length of Israel) from the … Continue reading →

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Beresheet goes into maximum Earth orbit

Posted on March 24, 2019

On 19th March, the engines of Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft fired it into a 405.000 km maximum Earth orbit which will take it to within range of the Moon.  Next event hopefully will be lunar capture on or around 4th Apr … Continue reading →

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Keep watching the skies

Posted on March 16, 2019

On 20th March, Israel’s SpaceIL plans to initiate the next maneuver of its Beresheet spacecraft, advancing it from its current 270,00 km maximum orbit into a 400,000 km maximum orbit. It will then attempt to achieve Lunar Capture on 4 … Continue reading →

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Beresheet takes a selfie and fires up

Posted on March 10, 2019

Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft to the moon, took a selfie of itself and the Earth some 37,600 km above our planet. The photo shows the Israeli flag, “Small Country Big Dreams” and “Am Yisrael Chai” (the Nation of Israel Lives). Beresheet … Continue reading →

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The inside story of Israel’s moon mission

Posted on March 2, 2019

If SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft completes its mission on April 11, Israel will join superpowers US, Russia and China in landing a spacecraft on the moon. Little Israel. With the smallest spacecraft ever to be sent to the moon. But as … Continue reading →

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Israeli spacecraft is in orbit

Posted on February 23, 2019

On Thu 21st Feb at 20:45 EST, I watched the live launch of the rocket carrying Beresheet – Israel SpaceIL’s (and the world’s first) privately-funded moon lander. See video launch at 16:30; Stage 1 separation at T+3mins; booster return at … Continue reading →

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Lunar lander for European Space Agency

Posted on February 10, 2019

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has partnered with Germany’s OHB System for a European Space Agency moon mission. IAI will provide a version of the lunar lander it helped develop for Israeli non-profit venture SpaceIL, which is preparing for a moon … Continue reading →

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More fuel for Israeli moonshot

Posted on November 25, 2018

Sylvan Adams, the Canadian-Israeli billionaire businessman credited with bringing the Giro d’Italia cycle race to Israel earlier this year, has joined Israel SpaceIL’s project to land a spacecraft on the moon.  He is also donating $5 million to the project. … Continue reading →

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