26.09.23|Yuval AzulayOn April 11, 2019, Israel was about to become the fourth country to reach the moon, but the crash of the Beresheet lunar probe shattered the dream. Billionaire Morris Kahn promised to restart the project but in the meantime he has stopped providing funding, the state is in no hurry to invest, and the landing target date is only getting further and further away
14.05.23|CTechThe group of donors that invested $45 million in the Beresheet 2 mission announced that they will stop further funding. They will continue to support the educational activities of the SpaceIL organization
25.01.22|Yafit OvadiaThe Parasol Foundation Women in SpaceIL program will provide scholarships to female engineering students, graduates and allow them to take part in construction of next lunar spacecraft
20.10.21|Yafit OvadiaThe next Israeli spacecraft will feature the flags of both the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and the countries will also use data from an Israeli-French satellite that monitors climate change to issue a call for proposals to better the environment
20.07.21|CTechYariv Bash, co-founder and CEO of Flytrex and founder of SpaceIL, has joined Michael Matias to discuss all things fight and flight.
18.12.20|Yafit Ovadia“Failure isn’t an option,” says Shlomi Sudri, General-Manager of the Space Division at Israel Aerospace Industries about plans for Israel’s next lunar mission and how this time will be completely different
13.12.20|Yafit OvadiaCountries today aren’t competing over who will make it first to the Moon, but many are looking to mark new firsts of their own
06.12.20|Yafit OvadiaAhead of the launch of Israel’s next astronaut, Inbal Kreiss discusses what comes next, why it’s important to dream, and how women can do anything they set their minds to
10.02.20|CTechSpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit organization behind the unmanned spacecraft Beresheet, has appointed Shimon Sarid as CEO
15.01.20|Adi PickThe grant is intended to support the Beresheet 2.0. spacecraft program and advance the goal of landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the moon
06.08.19|CTechThe crashed Israeli spacecraft was carrying a DNA bank containing 30 million pages of information, human DNA samples, and thousands of tardigrades, microscopic creatures better known as water bears, WIRED magazine reported
09.07.19|CTechAs part of a NASA program, the two companies will compete against eight other projects to deliver science payloads to the moon’s surface using technologies developed for Israeli private spacecraft Beresheet
26.06.19|Udi EtsionSpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit organization behind the spacecraft, announced it will seek out "another, significant objective" for its second venture
06.05.19|Lilach BaumerBeresheet crashed on its April moon landing, still making it the first privately funded spacecraft to reach lunar orbit
19.04.19|Nitsan SaddanAn outline of the history of lunar exploration, from ancient times to this day and age, in honor of Israeli spacecraft Beresheet that crashed on the moon’s surface last week
15.04.19|Udi EtsionOn Thursday, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed during its moon landing. Co-developer SpaceIL already announced a second spacecraft is in the works
14.04.19|Adi PickOn Saturday, Beresheet developer SpaceIL tweeted a video of its president Morris Kahn announcing the establishment of Beresheet 2
12.04.19|Lilach Baumer and Adi PickWhile Israel is still the seventh country to achieve lunar orbit, it appears a moon landing will have to wait
11.04.19|Lilach BaumerThe Israeli spacecraft is currently in elliptical orbit of the moon, only 15-17 kilometers above its surface at its lowest point
07.04.19|CTechThe maneuver brought Beresheet’s furthest point from the moon from 10,400 kilometers to 750 kilometers