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§ Historical recordBeresheet lander
Main-engine anomaly during descent; hard crash.
- Coordinates
- 32.5956, 19.3496 (positive-east)
- Era
- B (1990-2019)
- Parent mission
- Beresheet
- Role
- lander
- Operator
- SpaceIL / IAI
- Nation
- Israel
- Launched (UTC)
- 2019-02-22
- Reached Moon (UTC)
- 2019-04-04 orbit / 2019-04-11 crash
- Event type
- lander
- Outcome
- failure
- Site
- Mare Serenitatis
- Coordinate note
- CONTESTED: LROC image-smudge coordinate (debris field, not intact lander)
- Left on surface
- Lunar Library (tardigrades, archive, DNA)
- Returned material
- none
- Current status
- crashed
- Operational status (derived)
- failed
- Source grade
- primary
Primary source