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Israel to Begin New Moon Lander Project


(Times of Israel) Following the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet's failure to land safely on the moon this week, SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn on Saturday announced he was launching project Beresheet 2, effective immediately, adding: "We started something and we need to finish it. We'll put our flag on the moon." Opher Doron, general manager of the Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, said engineers believe there had been a failure with one of the telemetry (altitude) measurement units, which caused a chain of events that ended up cutting the main engine about 10 km. (6 miles) above the moon's surface. Without the main engine, the spacecraft could not properly brake in time to make a gentle landing. SpaceIL co-founder Yonatan Winetraub said after the crash: "Engineering and science are hard. Sometimes it doesn't work the first time, sometimes it doesn't work the second or third time. But it will work."
2019-04-15 00:00:00
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