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Spacecom CEO Steps Down

31.10.19|Avior Abou
David Pollak has led the Israeli satellite company for 24 years
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Philippine Backlash Over Israeli-Made Presidential Plane Soars to New Heights

15.10.19|Udi Etsion and Adi Pick
Militant groups and the Philippine public have criticized the government's recent purchase of the roughly $38.7 million aircraft, calling it “frivolous"
ועידת תעשייה ישראלית 2018 הראל לוקר יו"ר התעשייה האווירית

Israeli Defense Contractor IAI to Open a Dedicated Facility for Ground Warfare in Beer Sheva

18.08.19|Udi Etzion and Lior Gutman
The new facility will be dedicated to manufacturing autonomous robotic systems, terrestrial radar systems such as Drone Guard, and other advanced ground warfare technologies
רכב משוריין צה"ל פרויקט הכרמל רפאל מבחוץ

Israel’s Defense Ministry Demonstrates New Autonomous Armored Vehicles

05.08.19|Udi Etsion
Dubbed Carmel, the new vehicles are intended to replace the Merkava tank, Israel’s main battle tank for the past three decades. The lightweight, self-driving vehicles come equipped with artillery capabilities
נמרוד שפר מנכל התעשייה האווירית

Israeli Defense Contractor IAI to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees

22.07.19|Amitay Gazit
A previous agreement with the workers’ union, which expires in August, saw the state-owned company lay off 830 people and cut pay by 4%
תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israeli Defense Contractor IAI Partners With Space Launch Vehicle Company Firefly

09.07.19|CTech
As part of a NASA program, the two companies will compete against eight other projects to deliver science payloads to the moon’s surface using technologies developed for Israeli private spacecraft Beresheet
בראשית סלפי spaceil

Beresheet 2.0’s Moon Project Scrapped

26.06.19|Udi Etsion
SpaceIL, the Israeli nonprofit organization behind the spacecraft, announced it will seek out "another, significant objective" for its second venture
תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israel Doubles Down on Beresheet 2.0

06.05.19|Lilach Baumer
Beresheet crashed on its April moon landing, still making it the first privately funded spacecraft to reach lunar orbit
בראשית חללית נחיתה על הירח

The Challenge for Beresheet 2.0: Landing on the Moon and Sticking to the Budget

15.04.19|Udi Etsion
On Thursday, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed during its moon landing. Co-developer SpaceIL already announced a second spacecraft is in the works
בראשית נחיתה ירח

Israel to Shoot for the Moon, Again

14.04.19|Adi Pick
On Saturday, Beresheet developer SpaceIL tweeted a video of its president Morris Kahn announcing the establishment of Beresheet 2
בראשית נחיתה ירח

The Little Spaceship That Couldn’t

12.04.19|Lilach Baumer and Adi Pick
While Israel is still the seventh country to achieve lunar orbit, it appears a moon landing will have to wait
תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Beresheet to Land on Moon Tonight

11.04.19|Lilach Baumer
The Israeli spacecraft is currently in elliptical orbit of the moon, only 15-17 kilometers above its surface at its lowest point
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Following Successful Lunar Capture, Beresheet Sets Course for the Moon

05.04.19|Lilach Baumer
Israel is the seventh nation to achieve lunar orbit. If the landing is successful, it will become the fourth country to land a craft on the moon
בראשית סלפי spaceil

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet to Perform Lunar Capture Thursday

04.04.19|Lilach Baumer
Beresheet will attempt to slow down its speed as it leaves earth’s gravity to enter the moon’s orbit
SpaceIL חללית ישראלית בראשית

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet Passes Earth One Last Time Before Lunar Capture

01.04.19|Lilach Baumer
The craft completed a 72-second maneuver intended to achieve synchronization with the moon on Monday morning
שיגור חללית בראשית לחלל 2

Israel’s Moon Selfie Could Be Worth -$99 Million

31.03.19|Adi Pick
If Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft successfully lands on the moon next month, the $100 million venture could win a $1 million prize from the X Prize Foundation
בראשית סלפי spaceil

37,600 Kilometers from Earth, Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet Takes a Selfie

05.03.19|Lilach Baumer
After a faltering start, the Israeli spacecraft took a picture Tuesday as it passed above Australia
שיגור חללית בראשית לחלל 3

Beresheet Spacecraft Advances on Its Lunar Journey

24.02.19|Lilach Baumer
The Israeli spacecraft successfully launched Thursday, but sun rays are now getting in the way of its star-based navigation system
החללית הלא מאוישת של SpaceIL

Selfie-Taking Israeli Spacecraft to Take Off to the Moon This Week

18.02.19|Adi Pick
The Israeli spacecraft is expected to land on the moon on April 11, two days after Israelis will head to the polls for the country’s general elections
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IAI to Sponsor Los Angeles Space-Focused Startup Accelerator

17.02.19|Adi Pick
In addition to IAI, the new U.S.-based accelerator has formal sponsorship from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Air Force