After a brief engine failure, the spacecraft was moving too quickly to land safely and smashed into pieces on the lunar surface
Israelis gather for a viewing party to watch the Beresheet spacecraft land on the moon on April 11, 2019, in Tel Aviv, Israel.An Israeli spacecraft lost contact with Earth and crashed just moments before it was to land on the moon late Thursday, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history as the first privately funded lunar mission.
“One of the inertial measurement units failed. And that caused an unfortunate chain of events we’re not sure about,” he said. “The engine was turned off. The engine was stopped and the spacecraft crashed. That’s all we know.” “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again,” Netanyahu said. He vowed to put an Israeli spacecraft on the moon “intact” in the next two years.
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