Beresheet successfully completes lunar capture maneuver - Live - The Jerusalem Post

Beresheet and its route to the moon . (photo credit: SPACEIL)

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The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet is meant to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull on Thursday afternoon in a maneuver that will hopefully allow it to reach the moon. Should it fail to do so it will be trapped in the Sun’s gravitational pull and eventually melt near the sun.

A successful capture will mean the spacecraft will first circle the moon in an elliptical course. The plan is to use further maneuvers to slow its velocity to change the course into a circular one.

 

The circles are meant to become closer and closer to the surface of the moon until the expend April 11 landing.

Ahead of the date, Israel’s Space Agency planned twenty cross-country events that will be open to the public free of charge. 

Hagay Hacohen contributed to this report.

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2019-04-04 13:25:37Z
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