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SpaceIL and Parasol Foundation launch NIS 1.5M program to boost women in space industry

25.01.22|Yafit Ovadia

The 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

שמעון שריד שרה אל אמירי ו מוריס קאהן

Making peace in space: UAE will join Israel’s next Moon mission

20.10.21|Yafit Ovadia

The 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

Taking Israeli Chutzpah to the Moon: Its next lunar mission aims to land not one, but two vessels

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

The new commercial space race has countries soaring into the unknown

13.12.20|Yafit Ovadia

Countries today aren’t competing over who will make it first to the Moon, but many are looking to mark new firsts of their own

“We learned to dare to dream,” says Israel’s top female space scientist

06.12.20|Yafit Ovadia

Ahead 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

בראשית נחיתה ירח

Billionaire Len Blavatnik Aims For the Moon With $1 Million SpaceIL Grant

15.01.20|Adi Pick

The grant is intended to support the Beresheet 2.0. spacecraft program and advance the goal of landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the moon

דובון מים דובוני מים טרדיגרדה טרדיגריידים הדמיית תל ת מימד

Beresheet May Have Unleashed a Horde of Water Bears on the Moon, Report Says

The 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

תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israeli Defense Contractor IAI Partners With Space Launch Vehicle Company Firefly

As 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

בראשית סלפי spaceil

Beresheet 2.0’s Moon Project Scrapped

26.06.19|Udi Etsion

SpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit organization behind the spacecraft, announced it will seek out "another, significant objective" for its second venture

תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israel Doubles Down on Beresheet 2.0

06.05.19|Lilach Baumer

Beresheet crashed on its April moon landing, still making it the first privately funded spacecraft to reach lunar orbit

תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

From Plutarch to Beresheet: a Short History of Lunar Exploration

19.04.19|Nitsan Saddan

An 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

בראשית חללית נחיתה על הירח

The Challenge for Beresheet 2.0: Landing on the Moon and Sticking to the Budget

15.04.19|Udi Etsion

On Thursday, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed during its moon landing. Co-developer SpaceIL already announced a second spacecraft is in the works

בראשית נחיתה ירח

Israel to Shoot for the Moon, Again

14.04.19|Adi Pick

On Saturday, Beresheet developer SpaceIL tweeted a video of its president Morris Kahn announcing the establishment of Beresheet 2

בראשית נחיתה ירח

The Little Spaceship That Couldn’t

12.04.19|Lilach Baumer and Adi Pick

While Israel is still the seventh country to achieve lunar orbit, it appears a moon landing will have to wait

תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Beresheet to Land on Moon Tonight

11.04.19|Lilach Baumer

The Israeli spacecraft is currently in elliptical orbit of the moon, only 15-17 kilometers above its surface at its lowest point

תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet Completes First Moon-Orbit Maneuver

The maneuver brought Beresheet’s furthest point from the moon from 10,400 kilometers to 750 kilometers

Following Successful Lunar Capture, Beresheet Sets Course for the Moon

05.04.19|Lilach Baumer

Israel is the seventh nation to achieve lunar orbit. If the landing is successful, it will become the fourth country to land a craft on the moon

בראשית סלפי spaceil

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet to Perform Lunar Capture Thursday

04.04.19|Lilach Baumer

Beresheet will attempt to slow down its speed as it leaves earth’s gravity to enter the moon’s orbit

SpaceIL חללית ישראלית בראשית

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet Passes Earth One Last Time Before Lunar Capture

01.04.19|Lilach Baumer

The craft completed a 72-second maneuver intended to achieve synchronization with the moon on Monday morning

שיגור חללית בראשית לחלל 2

Israel’s Moon Selfie Could Be Worth -$99 Million

31.03.19|Adi Pick

If Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft successfully lands on the moon next month, the $100 million venture could win a $1 million prize from the X Prize Foundation