What items will Israel's Beresheet 2 Moon mission bring for the journey?
Israel's Beresheet 2 Moon mission bring for the journey
Israeli space organization SpaceIL announced which items will be brought as the payload for the Beresheet 2 mission.
Israeli space organization SpaceIL appointed a scientific advisory committee made up of top scientists, STEM representatives and members of the Israeli Space Agency this week to determine the first experiment onboard the Beresheet 2 lunar orbiter.
What is the experiment?
The experiment will investigate the stability of critical medicines under conditions similar to those on the Moon using a Raman spectrometer that will regularly monitor a medication lab kit.
The experiment is set to be run by Prof. Sarah Eyal, Prof. Oren Aharon and Dr. Tamar Stein from the Hebrew University and researchers from Charles University in the Czech Republic, Ghent University in Belgium and the International Space University in collaboration with SpacePharma, an Israeli-Swiss company that manufactures mini-laboratories for space missions.
SpaceIL acquires payload items
The Beresheet 2 mission will use vision-based landing sensor algorithms developed by Lulav Space and Ramon.Space's radiation-hardened computing platform and RC64, a machine learning DSP processor.
The mission will also utilize Jupiter-Space, which allows landers and the orbiter to manage the operation of a camera, run certain algorithms for the mission and store and compress images. This technology was developed by smart video transmission technology company Maris-Tech.