(CNN) Beresheet, an unmanned Israeli spacecraft, crashed during an attempt to land on the moon due to a technical glitch, said SpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit that launched it, citing preliminary data. The spacecraft's first technical issue occurred at 14 kilometers (about 8.7 miles) above the moon, SpaceIL officials said. The Beresheet then lost communications with the control room in Israel during the landing sequence. "At 150 meters when the connection with #Beresheet was lost, it was moving at 500 km/h, making a collision inevitable," the company tweeted. Engineers were able to restart communications with the spacecraft but officials said it was too late -- it was already moving too fast to land properly.

Source: CNN April 13, 2019 02:26 UTC