It’s now been a couple of weeks since Israel’s first attempt to land on the Moon was met with disaster at the last possible moment. The SpaceIL Beresheet lander crashed onto the Moon after what appeared to be some kind of engine failure in the final moments of approach, but new information is coming to light that suggests the engine may have had a good reason for shutting down.
A recent statement from SpaceIL offers a bit more context for the way the mission came to its unfortunate end, though plenty of questions remain.
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SpaceIL’s lunar lander crashed because of ‘manual command’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 23 Apr 2019 at 17:02:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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