The probe was going to measure the magnetic field of the moon & plant a so-called time capsule of electronic files including the Bible, children’s drawings, memories of a Holocaust survivor, Israel’s national anthem, the country’s national flag and a copy of Israel's Declaration of Independence.
If successful, the 590kg rocket would have become the first privately-funded spacecraft to land on the Moon, the lightest man-made object on the Earth's satellite & the cheapest-built probe to be launched into space, costing around $100 million.
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This won't stop them from claiming the Moon is their territory, and has always been, and that anyone else claiming sovereignty of Moon land is a terrorist. It is their Biblical right.
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Baresheet spacecraft snaps picture moments before crashing into moon.