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    Beresheet (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bərēšīṯ, "In the beginning"; Book of Genesis) was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated...
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  • Beresheet 2 is a planned private space mission intended to land two spacecraft on the Moon in 2025. As the spacecraft reaches the Moon, it will split...
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    SpaceIL (section Beresheet)
    contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it entered lunar orbit on 4 April...
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    capsule containing tardigrades was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon. Tardigrades are small arthropods able to tolerate...
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  • weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading Beresheet and Beresheet 2, both lunar landers by SpaceIL "Bereishit", a song by Blue Fringe...
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    reached the Moon with uncrewed missions. Three private/commercial missions, Beresheet (hard landing), Hakuto-R (hard landing), and Odysseus (soft landing) have...
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  • mission to no earlier than September 2026. After the failed landing of Beresheet in 2019, which resulted in a crash, spilling thousands of tardigades onto...
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    milestone, regardless of mission type or intended outcome. For example, Beresheet was not intended to be an impactor, but achieved that milestone incidentally...
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  • survived for a while on the Moon after the April 2019 crash landing of Beresheet, a failed Israeli lunar lander. Astrobiology – Science concerned with...
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    5 February 2025. "Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector (NGLR)". NASA. Beresheet crash caused by manual command, but reflector device may have survived...
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    Station and the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe. Another lunar mission, SpaceIL's Beresheet, was also equipped with a Bulgarian-manufactured imaging payload. Bulgaria's...
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    of the Moon. Israel's SpaceIL attempted a robotic lunar landing by its Beresheet lander on 4 April 2019; the attempt failed. As of 2023, SpaceIL has plans...
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    co-participant. The so-called "Tardigrade affair" of the 2019 crashed Beresheet lander and its carrying of tardigrades has been discussed as an example...
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    Taurus-Littrow valley, and Luna 21 landed in Le Monnier crater. SpaceIL's Beresheet lunar lander was planned to land in Mare Serenitatis, but crashed into...
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    tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon. Tardigrades' ability to remain desiccated for...
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  • would continue as a non-cash competition. On 11 April 2019, the SpaceIL Beresheet spacecraft crashed while attempting to land on the Moon. The SpaceIL team...
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    v t e Lunar landing missions Active Past Failed Apollo 13 Beresheet Chandrayaan-2 Hakuto-R M1 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Peregrine Surveyor 2 4 Planned...
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  • aircraft designed by R. J. Mitchell AN/APQ-64 Sparrow II, a type of radar Beresheet, lunar lander formerly known as "Sparrow" IE 2700 and 2750 Classes (nicknamed...
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    available as Print Wikipedia. In April 2019, an Israeli lunar lander, Beresheet, crash landed on the surface of the Moon carrying a copy of nearly all...
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    SpaceIL is in Yehud. From that base, SpaceIL manages the operations of the Beresheet lander. According to CBS, there are 10 schools and 5,159 students in the...
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    bar Yochai, Shimon (1999). Berg, Michael (ed.). The Zohar: Prologue, Beresheet A. Israel: Yeshivat "Kol Yehuda". Dan, Joseph, ed. (1986). The Early Kabbalah...
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    v t e Lunar landing missions Active Past Failed Apollo 13 Beresheet Chandrayaan-2 Hakuto-R M1 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Peregrine Surveyor 2 4 Planned...
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    July 2018. "SpaceIL and IAI Now Have Communications with Just Launched Beresheet Spacecraft — Maneuvering to Follow". 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February...
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  • $30 million, toward space education, if they won it. On 11 April 2019, Beresheet crash-landed on the lunar surface. Prior to impact, the probe had been...
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    tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state was on board the Israeli lunar lander Beresheet which crashed on the Moon. Tardigrades' ability to remain desiccated for...
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    establishments. In 2011, the Isrotel hotel chain opened a luxury hotel, the Beresheet Hotel, in Mitzpe Ramon. The Tourism Ministry allocated NIS 9.5 million...
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    return Apollo 11 12 14 15 16 17 Luna 16 20 24 Chang'e 5 6 Failed landings Beresheet Emirates Lunar Mission Hakuto-R M1 IM-1 2 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI...
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    v t e Lunar landing missions Active Past Failed Apollo 13 Beresheet Chandrayaan-2 Hakuto-R M1 Luna 5 7 8 15 18 25 OMOTENASHI Peregrine Surveyor 2 4 Planned...
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    ion thrusters. Beresheet was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket on 22 February 2019 1:45 UTC, with the goal of landing on the Moon. Beresheet uses the low-energy...
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    elliptical Earth orbit, exceeding its designed lifetime by four times. The Beresheet lander operated by Israel Aerospace Industries and SpaceIL impacted the...
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