Israel to launch first privately funded moon mission

"A team of Israeli scientists is to launch what will be the first privately funded
mission to land on the moon this week, sending a spacecraft to collect data from
the lunar surface.

Named Beresheet, the Hebrew word for Genesis, the 585kg (1,290lb) robotic lander
will blast off from Florida at 01.45 GMT on Friday, propelled by one of Elon
Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. Once it touches down, in several weeks, it will
measure the magnetic field of the moon to help understand how it formed."

See:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...d-moon-mission