Posted on 12/09/20
| News Source: i24
Seven countries ask to participate in project, including UAE
After Israel’s first space probe crashed while landing on the moon in 2019, the country announced on Wednesday its plans to send a second spacecraft in a similar mission, only this time, with a grander scheme in mind.
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Israel’s nonprofit SpaceIL unveiled the Beresheet 2 project in a ceremony that took place at Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s residence in Jerusalem.
“We are setting out on a new path, familiar but different, at the end of which we hope to land three spacecraft safely on the moon,” Rivlin stated at the event.
“This project will extend the boundaries of human knowledge with ground-breaking scientific experiments, helping us to understand better the universe in which we live.” Read more at i24