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By: Ricky Ben-David - September 5, 2021
Israel’s SpaceIL organization, embarking on a second mission to the lunar surface in 2024 following a failed landing bid two years ago, issued a call for proposals from space organizations worldwide for scientific experiments that may become part of the mission, dubbed Beresheet 2.
Universities, research institutes, and companies in the space sector across the globe will have until November 15 to submit their ideas, as the organization prepares to launch the moon mission, SpaceIL said on Thursday.
The organization announced late last year that the Beresheet 2 mission would aim to break several records in global space history, including a double landing on the Moon in a single mission by two of the smallest landing craft ever launched into space, each weighing 120 kilograms (265 pounds), half of which is fuel. The landers will launch on an orbiting spacecraft and then detach to take on the second part of their missions. One of the landers will attempt to touch down on the far side of the Moon, which only China has accomplished to date, and the second spacecraft is scheduled to land at an as-yet-undetermined site on the Moon.
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