ISRO Delays Chandrayaan 2 Launch Again – But How Is Beresheet Involved? thewire.in

These are the words of an unnamed official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and they make a perfectly reasonable point. Landing on the Moon – or any other space-faring endeavour for that matter – is a very involved undertaking and it is prudent, if political, commercial and/or social considerations permit, to delay it until one knows the odds of failure are at their lowest. However, what counts as failure? According to a PTI news report, which quotes the official, ISRO has postponed its Chandrayaan 2 mission to the Moon from April to July this year because a private Israeli mission named Beresheet failed to land on the Moon earlier this month.