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Japan and Israel on space mission
TOKYO / CAPE CANAVERAL. A great day for space travel in Tokyo and Tel Aviv: a Japanese spacecraft successfully landed on an asteroid 340 million kilometers from Earth on Friday.
Great joy in Japan after the landing Image: Reuters
And Israel sent for the first time a probe on the moon. They should arrive on April 11th.
The Japanese probe "Hayabusa2" is to collect materials on the surface of the Ryugu asteroid and return to Earth by the end of 2020. Researchers want to use this mission to track down the origins of the solar system.
The Israeli probe "Beresheet" began its flight from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport, in the US state of Florida. "Beresheet" would be the first privately funded mini-spaceship to reach a different celestial body. The non-profit organization SpaceIL, which is at the origin of the project, wants to create a prototype for the commercial landings of the moon.
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