Nusantara Satu
Beresheet, developed by the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL with Israel Aerospace Industries, was the first privately funded spacecraft to reach lunar orbit and Israel's first lunar mission. It separated into a supersynchronous transfer orbit and raised itself to the Moon over two months using onboard propulsion. On 11 April 2019 it entered lunar orbit successfully, then attempted to land in Mare Serenitatis — but a gyroscope failure caused the main engine to cut out during final descent, and the lander crashed.
The primary manifest customer was Nusantara Satu (PSN-6), a commercial Indonesian communications satellite headed for 146° East. An AFRL technology demonstrator, S5, hitched a ride attached to the comsat and was deployed near its geostationary position for a classified space situational awareness mission.
LIFTOFF
FEB 22 2019launched fromSLC-40Canaveral
aboardFalcon 9 B5F9-068intoGSO
Booster
B1048.3
Landed on drone ship · OCISLY
Payloads · 3
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Nusantara Satu (PSN-6)
Communications
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Beresheet Moon lander
Lunar lander
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S5
Technology demonstration
