{"id":738,"date":"2019-04-12T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/?p=738"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:41:02","slug":"team-spaceil-to-receive-inaugural-1-million-moonshot-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/team-spaceil-to-receive-inaugural-1-million-moonshot-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Team SpaceIL to Receive Inaugural $1 Million Moonshot Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, all eyes were on <b>Team SpaceIL<\/b> as they attempted to soft-land on the surface of the Moon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their robotic lander, Beresheet, Hebrew for \u201cGenesis,\u201d came very close to touching down, but ultimately failed to soft-land during its final descent. As it prepared for landing, Beresheet experienced a main engine failure and lost communication with mission control in Tel Aviv, suggesting the lander crashed into the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2361276B-2478-42C9-A8D1-9890A70C1AB4-1024x468.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2361276B-2478-42C9-A8D1-9890A70C1AB4-1024x468.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2361276B-2478-42C9-A8D1-9890A70C1AB4-300x137.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2361276B-2478-42C9-A8D1-9890A70C1AB4-768x351.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2361276B-2478-42C9-A8D1-9890A70C1AB4.jpeg 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the technical challenges, they still managed to accomplish the unimaginable &#8212; a feat never before achieved by a privately-funded entity. Team SpaceIL&#8217;s successful entry into lunar orbit and their attempt to soft-land on the lunar surface captured the public&#8217;s imagination, inspired the next generation of scientists, engineers and explorers, and has propelled the commercial space industry forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XPRIZE has decided to recognize SpaceIL\u2019s achievement with a $1 million Moonshot Award for its groundbreaking achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Morris Kahn, SpaceIL&#8217;s primary benefactor, and the entire team for all of their accomplishments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, all eyes were on Team SpaceIL as they attempted to soft-land on the surface of the Moon.&nbsp; Their robotic lander, Beresheet, Hebrew for \u201cGenesis,\u201d came very close to touching down, but ultimately failed to soft-land during its final descent. As it prepared for landing, Beresheet experienced a main engine failure and lost communication with&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/team-spaceil-to-receive-inaugural-1-million-moonshot-award\/\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,50,1],"tags":[291,293,40,294,35,295,289],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dokumentationen","category-projekte","category-uncategorized","tag-beresheet-lander","tag-genesis","tag-moon","tag-morris-kahn","tag-spaceil","tag-tel-aviv","tag-xprize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbridge.space\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}