SpaceIL is an Israeli nonprofit organisation, established in 2011, that was competing in the Google Lunar X Prize to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The contest declared no winner, but SpaceIL still aims to launch the spacecraft. Its total budget is estimated at US$70 million, provided mainly by philanthropists.
SpaceIL's entry is unique among GLXP contenders, in that instead of building a tracked or wheeled rover, SpaceIL plans to meet the requirement to travel 500 meters on the lunar surface by having the lander "hop" from its landing site to another site 500 meters away using rocket propulsion
