SpaceIL teases a possible second Moon landing attempt

SpaceIL, the group behind Israel's failed attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon last year, teased a possible second attempt at a Moon landing on Monday with a video reading 'Back to the Moon' with the date December 9, 2020. Ready to get excited again? pic.twitter.com/5IKRZxo9yJ — Israel To The Moon (@TeamSpaceIL) December 7, 2020 The video was published on SpaceIL's Twitter with the text 'Ready to get excited again?' SpaceIL's first, ill-fated Beresheet project crash-landed in the Moon's Sea of Serenity on April 11, 2019. Engineers lost contact with the spacecraft only minutes before it was due to complete the historic landing – a feat so far achieved only by the United States, Russia (then the USSR) and China – after an epic seven-week, 6.5 million km. journey since Beresheet blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on board a SpaceX rocket on February 22, 2019. Just days after the crash landing, SpaceIL announced the Beresheet 2 project, a second attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The project was expected to take about three years to complete. SpaceIL, a non-profit organization, was founded in 2011 by three Israeli engineers to take part in the Google Lunar XPRIZE by building, launching and landing an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon.

SpaceIL teases a possible second Moon landing attempt

A video was published on SpaceIL's Twitter with the text "Ready to get excited again?"

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SpaceIL teases a possible second Moon landing attempt

A video was published on SpaceIL's Twitter with the text "Ready to get excited again?"

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