SpaceIL Beresheet
SpaceIL's Beresheet lander, seen here during pre-launch preparations, performed its first maneuver after launch Feb. 24.

SpaceIL’s lunar lander performed a maneuver March 19 that puts the privately developed lander on course to enter orbit around the moon next month.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...