The Israel Space Agency said Wednesday that NASA had signed a deal with the SpaceIL group to help it launch a unmanned rocket at the moon in the coming months, in Israel’s first-ever moonshot.
SpaceIL, which is planning to launch the vehicle and land it on the moon on February 13, 2019, said NASA will provide a laser reflector that will help the spacecraft find a spot to land on the moon, as well as provide communications assistance.
The probe will be launched sometime in December from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as part of a Google technology contest to land a small probe on the moon.
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