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Until the middle of February there was some week left – exactly this the term private company SpaceIL of Israel has planned to send to The moon has its own Beresheet landing module, which, if successful, will be the first private spacecraft to reach Selenium.
But that’s not all: Beresheet, unlike all others of such modules, right there, as it lays down, it will begin to move along surface of the Earth’s natural satellite by means of a special jet engine.
Moreover, the device of a private company SpaceIL will deliver to the moon “time capsule” – three special discs recording the anthem of Israel, the history of this country, religious symbols and some others documents that personify achievement in the first place Israelis in space exploration.
Recall that SpaceIL arose within announced in 2007 by americans google contest Lunar X Prize whose winner could receive $ 20 million (or incentive 5 million) in case of landing on the moon of the device private company, with the module moving forward in the surface of Selena is not less than 500 meters and transmit to Earth photo and video materials of excellent quality. In terms indicated with this competition, not a single start-up was met, and therefore the promised prize, no one will receive. However, some participants in this moon exploration programs are still working on implementation set task. And SpaceIL succeeded in this business more Total.
The company is ready to send its 600 kg to the moon Beresheet module, which will initially be delivered to the Cape Canaveral USA. Here the company SpaceX Ilona Mask is preparing for launch of the communication satellite PSH-6 via the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which as an additional load will capture the lunar module Israelis will put him into transitional orbit, from where Beresheet will go to Selena.
Note that all this was made possible thanks to the support of SpaceIL from the Israeli Space Agency, which even signed a contract with NASA, allowing for communication with the lunar module use the tools and help of American experts. In return the Israelis pledged to provide NASA with data set to their magnetometer apparatus and maybe something else that the journalists are talking about could not find out.
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