Israel presented the last December the Bereshit 2 operation, a project that will seek to send an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon in 2024. This time, the project intends to renew prospects, providing a new chance to remind us of our responsibility to Earth, as the Israeli President said.

Bereshit is the name of the first probe the country attempted to send to the Moon in April 2019. Developed by SpaceIL, a private organization with no government connection, it weighed 585 kg and had become a great pride to Israel. However, due to a failure in its engine, the attempt failed and it was not possible to land safely.

The mission costed about $100 million, which is far less than the cost of other spacecrafts that have been on the Moon before. The equipment had no kind of sophistication and was designed to survive only a few days. Despite this, for very little the mission was not successful.

This time, Bereshit 2 will include three other adjacent spacecrafts and will be able to transmit the images of the landing in real time. This will allow that millions of people watch it, and Israel will become the fourth country to achieve the feat.

Allied technology in space exploration

For some years Israel has been seeking to explore space from the development of technologies. In March 2019, a “selfie” photo taken by a spacecraft in space caught the world’s attention, where the Earth appears in the background of the image, at a distance of more than 37,000 kilometers. In the image, the plaque installed on the spacecraft is seen, with the flag of Israel and the inscriptions “Am Yisrael Chai” (that means “The nation of Israel lives”) and “Small Country, Big Dreams”. In the image, we can also see Australia in the middle of the blue of the Earth.

Israel, as a major world reference in technological development, will “redefine the limits of what is possible”, as the Israeli President pointed out.