JERUSALEM: Israel's first spacecraft to the moon was expected to make its historic landing there Thursday and become the only private-sector craft to do so following a mission that has captivated the nation.
The journey is 384,000km , but Beresheet will travel a total of 6.5 million kilometres due to a series of orbits.NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries launched Beresheet from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Feb 22 with a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's private US-based SpaceX company.
The cost of the project is some US$100 million, with private philanthropists providing funding, particularly businessman Morris Kahn.The project began as part of the Google Lunar XPrize, which in 2010 offered $US30 million in awards to encourage scientists and entrepreneurs to come up with relatively low-cost moon missions.
NASA has made its Deep Space Network available to transmit data and has installed a small laser retroreflector aboard the lander to test its potential as a navigation tool.
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