The Israeli company that attempted to put an unmanned craft on the moon says it will not try a second moonshot.
SpaceIL said its lunar mission in April has been widely hailed as “an exceptional success”, despite crash landing on the moon.
It says that “an attempt to repeat a trip to the moon is not enough of a challenge” and will instead search for a different mission.
This is the last picture that Beresheet took, at a distance of 15 kilometers from the surface of the Moon.#Beresheet #SpaceIL pic.twitter.com/fGhNkvg5Qd
— Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) April 17, 2019
The SpaceIL “Beresheet” spacecraft attempted to be the first privately funded lunar mission, but failed to make a controlled landing on the lunar surface.
The company launched in 2011 and initially competed for Google’s Lunar Xprize, a $20m challenge for private companies to land on the moon.
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