SpaceIL, a nonprofit backed by a billionaire in Israel, has built a 1,300-lb moon lander.
The organization first formed to compete for the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize, but that competition ended without a winner in 2018. Regardless, SpaceIL kept developing its spacecraft and is now booked to launch on one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets.
The spacecraft will "rideshare" or piggyback into orbit alongside a much larger Indonesian communications satellite, called PSN-6. SpaceIL then hopes to rocket its lander away from Earth and attempt to put it on the moon, arriving on the lunar surface about two months post-launch.
The launch appears to scheduled for sometime in January, which means the lunar landing could happen in March 2019. If successful, the mission would make SpaceIL the first private entity and Israel the fourth country ever to land on the moon.