Morris Kahn, the primary sponsor of SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft, announced on Saturday evening the funding of a second Israeli spacecraft, Beresheet 2.0. A new group of donors will fund a second Israeli attempt to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon. The first craft was able to orbit the moon, but then control was lost just 150 meters from the surface and it crashed.
The dream goes on! Morris Kahn just announced the launching of Beresheet 2.0 #Beresheet2.0 #IsraeltotheMoon pic.twitter.com/fHlo3jeQ4W
— Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) April 13, 2019
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Considering they would have built an engineering model and possibly a second flight model beforehand, this time around should be cheaper just due to existing parts.
Don’t be silly. $100 million to start SpaceX or $200 million to be flown to the Moon.
It IS rocket/space science. Good for them!
A bit misleading title. should have add “robitic” or “unmanned” for carification
survived three failures, and that is a rarity.. Luckily the third failure got really close to succeeding.
“If at first you don’t succeed try try again.”
I assume that means they get two more tries.
Let us not forget that what is groundbreaking in this is that a commercial venue for building commercial rovers on the moon is opening, by spaceIL, by other former X-prize contenders and who knows by who else.
See at the bottom two paragraphs.
https://spacenews.com/spaceil-lander-crashes-on-moon/
Good for SpaceIL! That’s the spirit! Fingers crossed for you guys! You can do it!