Israel plans its launch of the first moon in December

Israeli scientists stand next to an unmanned spacecraft at Yahud

SpaceIL and the Israeli plan Israel Aerospace Industries plans to launch their unmanned vehicle in December, says the team. at a press conference in an IAI facility outside Tel Aviv. Recent space news on Moon has confirmed his words. SpaceIL an Israeli company, will work with Israel Aerospace Industries to launch a spacecraft into orbit with the aid of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

"From as the spacecraft reaches the point of landing, it will be completely autonomous ", Anteby said.

The 2-by-1,5 vehicle weighs 600 kilograms (1,323 pounds), making it the smallest spacecraft still touching the moon

SpaceIL CEO Anteby said that the organization would put the Israeli flag on the moon. It weighs only 180 kilos, with the exception of the fuel needed to approach and land on the moon. "He will be in contact with the ground stations around the world, we will be in radio contact with him throughout his journey". It will then begin to orbit around the moon, until the appropriate time to begin the landing process. The data will be transmitted to the IAI control room during the two days following the landing.

Founded in 2010 by three Israeli engineers, the non-profit organization began building the four-legged machine about two years later. 19659009] SpaceIL initiative is well under the Google Lunar XC Prize on SpaceIL will not receive the prize as the cash compensation because it was canceled by the initiator in March 2018 without winners. In the end, they reached the finals, but in the end, there was no winner because none had met the requirements and the deadline – but they still chose D & B To go there. They describe it as "a national mission" to use their story to create an "educational impact", not only for Israeli schoolchildren but for students around the world

. Josef Weiss, CEO of IAI, concluded that as a person who personally brought the collaboration with SpaceIL to IAI, he considers the launch of the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon as a example of the incredible abilities that one can reach in civilian clothes. spatial activity. The estimated "low cost" of this mission is about $ 95 million.

The lunar landing will culminate eight years of intensive collaboration between SpaceIL and IAI, and will make Israel the fourth country after the United States, China and the Russian Federation to reach the moon. It will orbit the Earth in expanding ellipses and, about two months later, will traverse into the orbit of the moon. "We will all remember where we were when Israel landed on the moon," he said.