01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL, which was founded by three young engineers, was established in order to participate in the Google Lunar X Prize race. However after non of the entrants were successful in sending a craft to the Moon, the...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
..., the millions of bright specks captured on the panorama are distant galaxies beyond the Milky Way. It’s like a “Google map of the Universe,” the science agency adds. Of the three million galaxies mapped, about a million have...
09 December 2020
SpaceIL announce Beresheet 2 will head to the Moon in 2024
... shortly add the organisation. SpaceIL is a non-profit organisation that was initially established in 2011 to compete in the Google’s Lunar XPRIZE; a competition that offered substantial monetary prizes, if a team were able to land a privately funded...
01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community. Orbital Insight’s Series B investment round was led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). New investor CME Ventures joined Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital and Bloomberg Beta, investment firms ...
