Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has announced plans to send the Beresheet 2 spacecraft to the moon by 2024. The $ 100 million project, funded largely by donors and implemented by the Israeli Space Agency, is aimed at research.
The previous launch of the Israeli lunar spacecraft Bereshit took place on February 22, 2019 with the Falcon 9 rocket of the American company SpaceX from the SLC-40 spaceport, Cape Canaveral. It was to land in the Sea of Clarity in the northern hemisphere, near the landing site of the Luna-21 probe and the Apollo 17 spacecraft, where one of the lunar magnetic anomalies is located.
However, on April 11, 2019, Bereshit crashed into the moon as a result of landing problems. The last photo was transmitted by the Bereshit probe from a height of 7.5 km from the moon’s surface after the failure of the main engine, which occurred at an altitude of about 22 km from the moon’s surface.
