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Forum: Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic: SpaceIL: Israeli moon lander 'Beresheet'

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 04-08-2019 01:58 PM SpaceIL release <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]Beresheet Update: April 8[/b]</font> At 7:48 a.m. Israel time today, the engineering team of SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries successfully carried out another maneuver of Israel's historic lunar spacecraft, Beresheet, in its orbit around the moon. During the maneuver, Beresheet's engines operated for about 36 seconds, burning about six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of fuel. The maneuver also took Beresheet closer to the moon's surface, from 750 kilometers (466 miles), called the apolune — the farthest point from the moon — to 210 kilometers (130 miles), or perilune, the orbital point closest to the moon. Beresheet is now in an elliptical orbit at an altitude of between 211 kilometers (131 miles) to 467 kilometers (290 miles) around the moon. Over the weekend, Beresheet took more photos of the far side of the moon from 550 kilometers (341 miles) and from 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) from the moon. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spaceil_beresheet_moon03-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/spaceil_beresheet_moon03.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0"></a></center> [i][b]Above[/b]: The moon from a distance of 550 kilometers (341 miles).[/i]</blockquote>
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