Science The Israeli lunar ‘Beresheet’ – loosely translated to ‘Genesis’ – the night of 21 on 22 February it was launched, hovering at last in an orbit around the moon. That is an important step in his mission, one that the flight is already a few weeks on Sunday. Now there is but one goal: land on the moon.
After the flight in February, SpaceX was launched, it had a lot of speed gain. It was Beresheet first few laps around the earth. Today it was finally there, and would the robot be a maneuver to perform which the to the gravity of the earth would escape.
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That maneuver was carried out successfully. Good thing, too, otherwise the unit would be somewhere in the solar system up over time.
Firsts
That means also that Israel itself is the seventh country in the world that managed to a ruimtetoestel in an orbit around the moon to launch. If everything goes as planned, the Israeli robot following week, on april 11, also set foot on the moon. This will Beresheet, the first privately funded spacecraft on the moon landing.
These firsts should be recorded, so also thought the lunar module. That drew his space mission with a selfie in which he himself, the Israeli flag and – what else – the moon. On the background of the selfie flaunts incidentally, also our earth.
