{"id":5639,"date":"2013-12-11T21:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:41:47","slug":"video-glxp-team-spaceil-signs-contract-for-propulsion-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"Video: GLXP team SpaceIl signs contract for propulsion system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceil.com\/\" target=\"_d\">SpaceIL<\/a>\u00a0team in the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelunarxprize.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Google Lunar X PRIZE<\/a>\u00a0competition <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamSpaceIL\/status\/410800615371993088\" target=\"_blank\">announced today<\/a> that they have signed a contract for the propulsion system for their lunar spacecraft.\u00a0Ronen Zilberstein, the SpaceIl Project Manager, gives a brief description of the propulsion plan:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2kQjXwoP-A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0SpaceIL\u00a0team in the\u00a0\u00a0Google Lunar X PRIZE\u00a0competition announced today that they have signed a contract for the propulsion system for their lunar spacecraft.\u00a0Ronen Zilberstein, the SpaceIl Project Manager, gives a brief description of the propulsion plan:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-diy-space","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1sX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11677,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11677","url_meta":{"origin":5639,"position":0},"title":"SpaceIL books trip to the Moon + Video: Seminar on lunar elevators","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The SpaceIL team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE is a volunteer, not-for-profit Israel-based organization that just became the first participant in the GLXP\u00a0to get a verified booking on a rocket:\u00a0Israeli Google Lunar XPRIZE Team Is First to Sign Launch Agreement For Private Mission to the Moon On SpaceX Falcon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DIY space&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DIY space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/niU0NG_z2Ag\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17355,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17355","url_meta":{"origin":5639,"position":1},"title":"Israel&#8217;s nonprofit SpaceIL lunar lander mission to include time capsule","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Israeli non-profit SpaceIL organization now expects SpaceX to launch its lunar lander mission in February. 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