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אפקטיב ספייס לווין

Astroscale Acquisition of Effective Space Means its Space Drones Won’t be Built in Israel

04.06.20|Udi Etsion
Israeli space pioneer Arie Halsband will continue to oversee research and development of mini-satellites
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From Earth to Mars, New Agtech Developments Bring New Regulatory Hurdles

30.05.20|Dov Greenbaum
As farming IoT devices become the new norm, new regulations are required to protect farmers’ trade secrets while allowing them to migrate between technologies
דגנית פייקובסקי ועידת הכלכלה והתעשיה 2020

A New Moon Landing Will Be a Gateway to Mars, Says Space Policy Expert

06.02.20|Amitay Gazit
Deganit Paikowsky, a vice president at international space advocacy organization the International Astronautical Federation, spoke Wednesday at Calcalist's Industry and Economy conference in Tel Aviv
נמרוד שפר מנכל התעשייה האווירית

IAI to Develop and Build Israeli National Communication Satellite

05.01.20|Udi Etsion
Called Dror 1, the satellite is intended to fulfill the country’s communication needs for the next 15 years
שיגור הלוויין עמוס 17 ספייס X SpaceX

Satellite Operator Spacecom's AMOS-17 Reaches Orbit Point

18.11.19|Avior Abou
AMOS-17 was launched in August from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on the back of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
דובון מים דובוני מים טרדיגרדה טרדיגריידים הדמיית תל ת מימד

Beresheet May Have Unleashed a Horde of Water Bears on the Moon, Report Says

06.08.19|CTech
The crashed Israeli spacecraft was carrying a DNA bank containing 30 million pages of information, human DNA samples, and thousands of tardigrades, microscopic creatures better known as water bears, WIRED magazine reported
כדור הארץ מבט לוויני צילום לווין

Satellite Startup NSLComm to Launch First Satellite Into Space

03.07.19|Adi Pick
Founded in 2009, NSLComm designs small satellites with fabric-like, flexible dish antennas that expand in space
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
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When ET Calls, Who Should Pick Up the Phone?

07.06.19|Dov Greenbaum
Billions of dollars are invested in attempts to contact extraterrestrial life, but legislation is still lagging. The law needs to determine who should respond to alien attempts to contact earth, and how
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
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
תמונות של הירח שצילמה החללית הישראלית בראשית

Israeli Spacecraft Beresheet Completes First Moon-Orbit Maneuver

07.04.19|CTech
The maneuver brought Beresheet’s furthest point from the moon from 10,400 kilometers to 750 kilometers
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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
חליפת החלל של סטמרד הישראלית נגד קרינה בחלל

NASA to Include StemRad's Radiation Vest in Orion’s First Mission to the Moon

11.03.19|CTech
Last year, Calcalist reported that NASA will test StemRad’s radiation suit, dubbed AstroRad, in a deep space mission
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
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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
תחנת החלל הבינלאומית נאס"א אסטרונאוטים אסטרונאוט

Is Space the Final Frontier for Copyright and Patent Law?

22.02.19|Dov Greenbaum
Space, in general, represents an inherent problem for patents, as they are fundamentally territorial, while space is axiomatically extraterritorial to all countries, writes researcher Dov Greenbaum