[oriolgg]

I was just watching it live, cheering for SpaceIL, it's a pity that the landing was not successful.

I was part of the engineering team of the Japanese team Hakuto of the Google Lunar XPRIZE. I always wondered how it would feel to be in the control room at this time, but our launch deal fell through. I can understand what the SpaceIL engineers are going through right now.

Congratulations to all the SpaceIL team for reaching this far, your work has been impressive. Keep trying and you will make it!

[ronnier]

Maybe not a success this time, but a lot will be learned. These types of failures are now we learn, adapt, and move forward.

[inglor]

True though Israel put its own satellites in space (the Amos program).

The cool thing about it was that was a pet project of a few scientists doing it just because it was cool rather than a proper national project

[sanxiyn]

I doubt SpaceIL will be able to use anything they learned. IIUC they are out of money and can't move forward.