SpaceIL

aka Beresheet

Israeli non-profit advancing science and STEM education by building robotic lunar landers; the first privately funded organization to reach lunar orbit and attempt a Moon landing with Beresheet in 2019.

lunar economyILlunar landernon-profitSTEMspaceil.com

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Funding Raised

Products & Services

Beresheet

retired

lunar lander

Israel's first Moon spacecraft and the first privately funded lunar landing attempt; entered lunar orbit but crashed during descent in April 2019.

Since 2019

Beresheet 2

development

lunar lander

Successor lunar lander program; development began in 2020 and was frozen in 2025 pending a budget solution.

Key Challenges

Main-engine failure during Beresheet 1 lunar descentFunding constraints froze Beresheet 2 in 2025Reliance on private philanthropy and volunteers

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Beresheet 2 completion and launch

delayed

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