SpaceIL's and IAI's engineering team will perform the most crucial maneuver so far on the Moon mission - the "Lunar Capture". The maneuver will allow the spacecraft to be drawn by the moon's gravity and thus begin to orbit both it and planet Earth.
To date, the spacecraft has orbited the Earth, during which time several motor activation maneuvers were carried out to raise its orbit and distance it from Earth.
At the beginning of the week, the spacecraft last reached the nearest point to Earth on the last lap around it - only 1,700 kilometers distance, and then continued on its way to the meeting point with the moon at a distance of 400 thousand kilometers.