The Japanese mission #HAKUTO-R was supposed to land on the Moon 2 days ago, but it is now believed that the spacecraft crashed into the surface. This spacecraft was built by the privately funded company #ispace.

This failure follows on the crash of the #Beresheet lander on April 11 2019 that was built by the private Israeli company #SpaceIL.

This year we will see three more landing attempts by the private US companies #Astrobotics and #IntuitiveMachines.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01441-y

#Beresheet
"The #ceremony of installing the disk containing the #LunarLibrary in the #spacecraft was a #publicity stunt. Delivering the spacecraft to the #LaunchSite was also a #show for the #media – from the transport to Ben Gurion #Airport with the completely #unnecessary #police escort, to its loading onto the cargo plane ✈️.
It seems that the #debate over whether #tardigrades can #survive on the #moon has reached well beyond the #space buffs’ circles https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/sciencepanorama/what-happened-beresheet

#SpaceCompany #SpaceIL #marketing

Isn’t it refreshing when a moonshot is an actual moon shot?

RT @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com

Don’t stop believing! We came close but unfortunately didn’t succeed with the landing process. More updates to follow.
#SpaceIL #Beresheet

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TeamSpaceIL/status/1116430572551852032

#SpaceIL #Beresheet #IsraelToTheMoon A little while ago the Israeli lander Beresheet attempted a Moon landing but something didn’t work perfectly in its propulsion system and probably crashed on the Moon’s surface. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/04/11/the-landing-on-the-moon-of-the-israeli-lander-beresheet-didnt-succeed/

:( Beresheet
Your achievement is amazing! So sorry the landing didn't work out. I hope you can try again. #beresheet #moon #spaceil
https://social.vaughnhannon.com/2019/04/11/beresheet/
#beresheet #israel #moon #spaceil

RT @TeamSpaceIL: Here is the Youtube Live broadcast for the Moon landing. #Beresheet will start the landing process at approximately 22:05 Israeli time (UTC 03:00), which will take around 25 minutes. https://t.co/vnCsVpauAs
#IsraelToTheMoon #SpaceIL

RT @TeamSpaceIL@twitter.com
Moon capture! 🇮🇱
Critical lunar orbit capture took place successfully. #Beresheet is now entering an elliptical course around the #moon, as we get closer to the historical landing #11.4.📷 Eliran Avital #Israeltothemoon @ILSpaceAgency@twitter.com #spaceil

The Israeli non-profit #SpaceIL recently launched a probe called #Bereshit (Genesis) to the moon. If all goes well, this would be the first NGO to launch a mission to the moon.

One of SpaceIL's heads is Yariv #Bash - Bash gets you to the moon!

#SpaceIL #SpaceX #IsraelToTheMoon A few hours ago a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral base with the telecommunications satellite PSN 6 and as secondary payloads the S5 military satellite and SpaceIL's Beresheet Moon lander. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/02/22/the-launch-of-the-beresheet-moon-lander-is-a-success/