Moon

20 stories about Moon
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German lunar shuttle to fly Israeli Helios hardware to the Moon

18.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
The OHB corporation signed an agreement with the Israeli space tech startup to send its lunar mining hardware to the Moon by 2025
ילדה עם בראשית

SpaceIL issues international call for experiments to send aboard Beresheet 2

05.09.21|Yafit Ovadia
Unlike its predecessor, the next Israeli lunar spacecraft will feature experiments onboard. Call is open to all countries
הדמייה של בסיס על הירח 1

Helios to join Japanese missions to the lunar surface

19.07.21|Yafit Ovadia
The Israeli space tech startup, which has developed a way to mine oxygen from the Moon, will participate in two Japanese missions to test its technology
צוות של ספייס-אי-אל

SpaceIL raises $70 million for next lunar mission

11.07.21|Yafit Ovadia
The space tech startup, renowned for its first lunar attempt, raised the funds for its Beresheet 2 mission to be launched in 2024
אדמת הירח

Helios is powering lunar settlements of the future

14.05.21|Yafit Ovadia
The Israeli space tech startup’s proprietary technology aims to mine oxygen on the Moon, and power the next generation of settlements on other planets
גארט רייזמן

“SpaceX brought that Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial corporate culture to space,” says astronaut

05.02.21|Yafit Ovadia
Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman speaks of his career at Elon Musk’s SpaceX and how it’s defying the status quo, the hottest space tech companies for investors, as well as his time spent floating above the majestic vastness of the Earth
שלומי סודרי

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
בראשית נחיתה ירח

“Israel is going back to the Moon,” announces SpaceIL co-founder

13.12.20|Yafit Ovadia
Beresheet 2, Israel’s second attempt at a lunar lander is set to launch in 2024
כדור הארץ חלל

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
דונלד טראמפ קורונה מסכה אוקטובר 2020

Science naturally evolves, Covid-19 threatens to politicize that

30.10.20|Dov Greenbaum
While politicians are used to being hated, the real victim of recent times is probably science
ירח מלא

Artemis Accords leave big questions on space mining largely up in the air

16.10.20|Dov Greenbaum
Deep down at the end of the document, the parties agree that mining of celestial bodies is legal under international law
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

06.08.19|CTech
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

09.07.19|CTech
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

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

07.04.19|CTech
The maneuver brought Beresheet’s furthest point from the moon from 10,400 kilometers to 750 kilometers
ירח מלא

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
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