At 7:27 p.m., the earth’s shadow on the moon was fully visible across the Jewish state, and at around 8:30 p.m. the total lunar eclipse commenced.

'Professor Jeffrey Gordon was invited by NASA to present a plan to power lunar colonies solely through solar energy,' announced Ben-Gurion University.

SpaceIL plans a double landing on the Moon in 2025, aiming to continue in orbit for five years as a platform for science education activities.

Projects include satellite developed by Israeli and Emirati students to determine exact time of new moon.

SpaceIL intends to send two lunar landers and an orbiter to the Moon in 2024.

Innovative Israeli technology being developed will allow oxygen to be produced from lunar soil to power space colonies and space exploration.

Israel's Beresheet, the first non-governmental craft in the world to go to the moon, is sending a time capsule containing Israeli national symbols and cultural artifacts into space.

SpaceIL announced it will launch a spacecraft that will land on the moon before the end of 2019.