Beresheet was a demonstrator mission of a small robotic lunar lander and probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, launched on February 22, 2019. Its aims included inspiring young people toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers and landing a magnetometer, a time capsule and a laser retroreflector on the Moon. The lander was previously known as Sparrow and was renamed Beresheet, Hebrew for in the beginning, in December 2018. Its gyroscopes failed on April 11, 2019, which shut off the main engine and led it to crash on the Moon; it had a net mass of 150 kilograms.
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was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
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It was launched on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC
Operated By: SpaceIL, Lead: operator SpaceIL
operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
Operated By: Israel Aerospace Industries, Lead: operator Israel Aerospace Industries
operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
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was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
Spacecraft Of: Beresheet, Lead: mission of the spacecraft (mission-of)
was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
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was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries
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