Israel Space
An israeli spacecraft attempting to make history by becoming the first privately funded craft to land on the moon suffered an engine malfunction during its descent and crashed onto the lunar.
Israel space. The shalom mission the shalom mission is a joint initiative of the israel space agency and the asi the italian space agency. The robotic beresheet spacecraft built by spaceil and israel aerospace industries iai aimed to become the first israeli craft and the first privately funded mission ever to land softly on the. The organization was founded by three young engineers.
With israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and a throng of dignitaries and well wishers looking on a small israeli spacecraft attempted to pull off the first privately funded non superpower. Spaceil is a non profit organization established in 2010 with the aim of landing the first israeli spacecraft on the moon. סוכנות החלל הישראלית sokhnut hekhalal hayisraelit is a governmental body a part of israel s ministry of science and technology that coordinates all israeli space research programs with scientific and commercial goals.
According to the ministry the un office for outer space affairs unoosa has selected the. The spaceil team was founded as a nonprofit organization wishing to promote scientific and technological education in israel. Its total budget for the mission is estimated at us 95 million provided by israeli billionaire morris kahn and other philanthropists as well as the israel space agency isa.
The israel space agency isa.