Ramon.Space and Lulav Space announced today that the two companies are partnering to provide an advanced navigation solution for the Beresheet 2 lunar missions scheduled for 2025. The Beresheet 2 lunar missions are developed by SpaceIL, an Israeli organization for space development, with an aim to conduct a double landing on the Moon and continue in orbit for five years as a platform for science education activities.
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According to the agreement, Lulav Space will implement its vision-based landing sensor algorithms on Ramon.Space's radiation-hardened computing platform and unique in-house RC64, a machine learning, DSP processor. Ramon.Space's technology effectively supports advanced computer vision algorithms such as those that are being developed by Lulav Space.
"SpaceIL is proud to select Lulav Space as a landing sensor supplier for Beresheet 2 landers and to work together with Lulav Space and Ramon.Space to perform successful lunar landings on both sides of the Moon in our next challenging mission," said Shimon Sarid, CEO of SpaceIL.
"An accurate, robust navigation sensor is critical to support lunar landings," said Noam Leiter, CEO at Lulav Space. "We are thrilled to have been chosen by SpaceIL for the Beresheet 2 mission. By using Ramon.Space's computing platform, we can develop our advanced algorithms easily, rapidly, and reliably to ensure the most accurate and detailed information and support this historic mission."
The capabilities that Ramon.Space enables include simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms to provide position and velocity to the lander navigation system during the lunar descent as well as hazard detection methods to allow for a safe landing.
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