Israel’s space probe “Beresheet” has mastered on the way to the moon, a decisive maneuver. The small probe had managed the so-called “moon Fang” – the Transition in the gravitational pull of the moon, reported Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Thursday. In a week’s planned landing of the space probe orbiting now around the moon.
landing in the “sea of joy” scheduled
The probe should reduce the distance to the moon, on Thursday evening, the 11th. April, from the optimal point of a landing attempt. The moon landing was planned in the area of the “sea of serenity”.
Morris Kahn, President of the Israeli Nonprofit organization SpaceIL, which is behind the project, said: “The moon, the fishing alone is already a historic event.” In a week Israel will write “history by landing on the moon, and the three of us great powers to connect, have managed so far”.
It is the first Time that Israel sends a spacecraft to the moon. The small probe had your seven weeks long trip to the moon on the 22. February from the spaceport Cape Canaveral in the U.S. state of Florida began. It was carried by a Falcon 9 rocket of space travel company SpaceX, Tesla boss Elon Musk. Thereafter, she was detached from the rocket and into the orbit of the earth.
The small Israel will be the major powers USA, Russia and China the fourth country that ends up with a space ship on the moon.
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The probe with a weight of just 600 kilos, and one and a half metres in height, should set an Israeli flag on the moon and the magnetic field to investigate. (dpa)
