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(February 19, 2019 / JNS) Israel is due to launch its initial mission to the moon on Thursday, which is also the first privately funded lunar voyage, Israeli non-profit organizations SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on Monday.
The lunar probe, called "Beresheet" (in Hebrew for "In the Beginning", will also be the first weekly part of the Torah), will be aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 that will be launched from Cape Air Base. Canaveral Florida.
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About half an hour after launch, the lunar lander will separate from the SpaceX rocket a little over 37,282 miles above the surface of the Earth and begin a two-month trip to the moon. A few minutes after leaving the rocket, Beresheet will then be in contact with the Mission Control Center located in the Israeli city of Yehud.
With this mission, Israel will join the United States, Russia and China to land a spacecraft on the moon.
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