Space

20 stories about Space
צארלס ג'פרי כריסטיאן ו איתן סטיבה

Sustainability is space’s newest frontier

28.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
“Space tech startups can’t raise Seed funding without demonstrating that they can make a buck,” says AxiomSpace director, as companies look to create more sustainable dual-use technologies
סמדר שטראוס

Storage in Space? Why is it so complicated and how will humanity benefit from it?

26.01.22|Smadar Strauss
“A satellite that costs millions of dollars may suddenly become ineffective due to a failure in the system’s storage. What is the value of an advanced satellite with a sophisticated camera if its images cannot be saved properly?” writes Smadar Strauss of Ramon.Space
רות פרסול

SpaceIL and Parasol Foundation launch NIS 1.5M program to boost women in space industry

25.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
The Parasol Foundation Women in SpaceIL program will provide scholarships to female engineering students, graduates and allow them to take part in construction of next lunar spacecraft
איתן סטיבה עם חליפת חלל

Next Israeli astronaut’s 35 experiments revealed

24.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
Needle-free blood tests, cosmic lightning, super-vegetables, and nano-ghosts are just a few of the innovative experiments Eytan Stibbe will test during his February mission to the International Space Station
לוויין יפני אלוס-2

Asterra is looking to the stars for the answers

21.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
“From the stars to the ground, our mission is to help humanity better understand what’s going on on our planet by using synthetic aperture radar,” says Asterra CEO
Lane Bess Sepio

Lane Bess joins Sepio as Chairman of the Board

16.01.22|James Spiro
The entrepreneur and venture capitalist was formerly an exec at Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks
לוויין של חברת אסטרוסקייל

Astroscale, Orbit Fab are helping refuel satellites in space, clean up space junk

13.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
Customers can launch large satellites into space that can later be refueled mid-orbit. “We’re helping clean up space debris,” says head of Astroscale-Israel
הלווין של אוניברסיטת תל אביב

TAU launches satellite to protect space systems against radiation

10.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
The “COTS-Capsule” within the TauSat-3 is one of the 43 experiments that the next Israeli astronaut will test on his mission to the International Space Station next month, after it successfully docked on Sunday
אורית פרקש הכהן

Israel awards nearly $6 million in grants to space tech startups

09.01.22|Yafit Ovadia
From growing super-vegetables in space to taking high-resolution images of oil spills, 11 Israeli companies that develop innovative space technologies will receive the grant. “It’s a tremendous economic growth engine,” said D-G of Israel Space Agency
לווין בחלל

Who is going to stop space terrorists?

08.01.22|Dov Greenbaum
"If the aim of terrorist organizations is to terrorize, causing any sort of harm in space, even if its only to smaller, less valuable, satellites, it is scary enough," writes Dov Greenbaum
לוויינים של גילת ב חלל

“Bezos, Musk, and Branson have high-level plans for space; so do we”

26.12.21|Yafit Ovadia
“The satellite industry is moving from a niche industry to center-stage,” says Dubi Lever, CTO of Gilat Satellite Networks, an Israeli provider of satellite-based broadband communications systems that is bringing about the next-generation of digital satellites
אסטרואיד ב חלל

Is space mining legal?

21.12.21|Dov Greenbaum
"If we want space mining to have a happy ending, its important that we adequately resolve the open legal questions while also creating new laws and regulations that will both incentivize beneficial mining," writes Dov Greenbaum
אירוע Roadshow Jonathan Geifman

“Humanity is going back to the moon in the coming three years”

10.12.21|James Spiro
Speaking at the Poalim Hi-Tech and Calcalist Road Show, Jonathan Geifman, Co-Founder and CEO of Helios, gave an update on the space race
יורם מלכה

Capturing selfies in space to prevent satellite mishaps in real-time

10.12.21|Yafit Ovadia
“We’re bringing space to people,” says MicroGic Electronics CEO, whose company designs sophisticated cameras and sensors for satellites and other space applications
מימין אדריאנה מוריאס רובימבו סמנגה בווניה מרטינס ו פגי ויטסון

“People don’t realize that every time we swipe a card or navigate a car we’re accessing space tech”

12.11.21|Yafit Ovadia
Four female space experts spoke during a panel moderated by Israel’s next astronaut about adopting dual-use technologies to better our future
לוויין של התעשייה האווירית

IAI unveils new mini satellite, cloud capabilities at Dubai Expo

26.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
The aerospace company unveiled its new mini communication satellite, and launched a cloud-based ground station for satellite-generated data
שמעון שריד שרה אל אמירי ו מוריס קאהן

Making peace in space: UAE will join Israel’s next Moon mission

20.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
The next Israeli spacecraft will feature the flags of both the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and the countries will also use data from an Israeli-French satellite that monitors climate change to issue a call for proposals to better the environment
מנכ"ל הליסו יונתן גיפמן וטימו סטפלר

German lunar shuttle to fly Israeli Helios hardware to the Moon

18.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
The OHB corporation signed an agreement with the Israeli space tech startup to send its lunar mining hardware to the Moon by 2025
נשים בחלל

“Working in this tech sector as a woman, you have to be just a little bit better"

11.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
Dr. Sandra Cauffman, Deputy Director for the Earth Science Division at NASA, was speaking at a panel of top female space experts as part of World Space Week in which Israel participated actively for the first time last week
צוות האסטרונאוטים של מאדים

'Astronauts' begin Mars simulation in planetary dome in Negev

10.10.21|Yafit Ovadia
AMADEE-20 is a 21-day Mars analog simulation taking place in the Negev desert and will be managed by the Austrian Space Forum and the Israel Space Agency