{"id":155002,"date":"2019-03-20T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/?p=155002"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:54:01","slug":"spaceil-unmanned-lunar-mission-on-course-for-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/03\/spaceil-unmanned-lunar-mission-on-course-for-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceIL Unmanned Lunar Mission on Course for the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":" \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/one-small-step-for-israel-highlights-one-giant-heap-of-space-trash-for-mankind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel&#8217;s unmanned lunar mission is on course to land on the moon\u2019s Sea of Serenity on April 11.<\/a> It will be between the Apollo 12 and 15 landing sites.\n\nThe lower power of the booster rocket required an additional rocket burn to boost its orbit so that it will reach the moon. This burn was successful and the craft will reach lunar orbit where it will adjust its lunar orbit until it is ready to land.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technology.spaceil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The $100 million Beresheet spacecraft is a joint venture<\/a> between startup SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries.\n\nFrom April 11 to 13th, the spacecraft is expected to carry out two or three days of experiments collecting data about the moon\u2019s magnetic fields before shutting down. \n\n\n \n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-10.49.37-AM-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-10.49.37-AM-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-10.49.37-AM-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-10.49.37-AM-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-10.49.37-AM.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n \n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_R4zk448oPs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n \n\n \nSOURCES- SpaceIl, Israeli Times\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s unmanned lunar mission is on course to land on the moon\u2019s Sea of Serenity on April 11. It will be between the Apollo 12 and 15 landing sites. The lower power of the booster rocket required an additional rocket burn to boost its orbit so that it will reach the moon. This burn was &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"SpaceIL Unmanned Lunar Mission on Course for the Moon\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/03\/spaceil-unmanned-lunar-mission-on-course-for-the-moon.html#more-155002\" aria-label=\"More on SpaceIL Unmanned Lunar Mission on Course for the Moon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1310,1306,1304,1307,1308],"tags":[66,111,20,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}