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Illustrative. A satellite orbiting the earth (iStock)
August 4, 2025, 9:30 pm
Israel will invest NIS 40 million to launch a national R&D lab for space tech
New lab by Israel Space Agency hopes to help startups speed up local technologies for outer space and compete in the growing global space tech market
By Sharon Wrobel
Anat Hetz-Golan, left, manager of Solaris, and Dr. Marina Hetz, CEO of Space Valley, which built and operates the first and only national solar observatory, in the Druze village of Isfiya on Mount Carmel on February 24, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel
March 20, 2025, 7:33 am
In time for the equinox, Israel’s first solar observatory opens in northern Druze town
Solaris launches in Isfiya as part of a government program to increase space research in the Arab Israeli community
By Diana Bletter
A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky. (Ben Netanel/Israel Space Agency)
July 30, 2024, 6:52 pm
Annual meteor shower to dazzle skygazers August 9-13
Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Space Agency to team up and stage events across the country, but mainly in the south where light pollution is low
By Sue Surkes
Artist impression of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, or ULTRASAT. (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
February 21, 2023, 3:06 pm
Israel to launch first space telescope in 2026, will observe stellar collisions
NASA rocket will carry Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite into space, from where $90 million vehicle will scan for transient events to research black holes and supernovas
By ToI Staff
Photographers place remote cameras near the Artemis 1 rocket as she stands on Launch Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 26, 2022. (AP/Brynn Anderson)
September 8, 2022, 11:31 pm
NASA says it may attempt Artemis mission to Moon later this month
Two previous attempts were scrapped due to technical glitches; official says next attempt at unmanned launch featuring Israeli tech may take place on September 23 or 27
By AFP and ToI Staff
An illustration of an oxygen depot on the moon by Israeli startup Helios. (Helios)
August 17, 2022, 11:43 am
Israeli space tech startup Helios partners with Eta Space to make oxygen on Moon
Companies will leverage each other’s expertise to develop lunar oxygen production and liquefaction plant
By Ricky Ben-David
An illustration of the Orion aircraft carrying two female-form human mannequins, one wearing the AstroRad protection suit by Israeli company Stemrad. (NASA/DLR)
August 8, 2022, 6:09 pm
Israel’s StemRad gears up for major demo of anti-radiation suit on NASA’s Artemis I
Company to test protective qualities of AstroRad vest on humanoid mannequin aboard Orion spacecraft, set for launch later this month
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative: The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station for docking, April 24, 2021. (NASA via AP, File)
May 18, 2022, 6:29 pm
Israel plans to invest NIS 600 million to develop civilian space tech
New project by Israel Space Agency hopes to position country as ‘one of the world’s leaders in the space industry’
By Ricky Ben-David
The Fluidic Telescope Experiment (FLUTE), was designed and built by researchers in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion in collaboration with a team of researchers at NASA. (Courtesy of the Technion)
January 24, 2022, 6:38 pm
Space meat and hummus: Israel finalizes experiments for upcoming ISS mission
35 projects, part of Rakia program of research studies on International Space Station, to be performed by Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe this spring
By Ricky Ben-David
This composite image made from a series of Jan. 23, 2018 photos shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)
January 24, 2022, 4:32 pm
Israeli astrobiologist: New Mars ancient life findings ‘important’ but incomplete
Dr. Reut Sorek Abramovich says NASA discovery of signs of carbon in Red Planet rock samples requires ‘thorough research in the field,’ preferably by manned mission
By ToI Staff
Israel Space Agency officials and students watch from Herzliya as the SpaceX Falcon rocket launches in Florida, on January 13, 2022. (Screenshot)
January 13, 2022, 9:06 pm
8 tiny satellites built by Israeli students launched into space
SpaceX rocket launch marks culmination of three years of work for science-minded students at schools across Israel, who gathered to watch the Florida event from Herzliya
By Amy Spiro
NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. (NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Wikipedia)
January 5, 2022, 6:21 am
Space is changing. Webb is just the start, says ex-Israeli who was in from its dawn
Michael Kaplan, who shepherded the telescope through its planning stages before temporarily living in Israel, talks space robots, baby galaxies, and the pitfalls of Israeli bravado
By Haviv Rettig Gur
An Israeli analog astronaut walks inside a simulated spacesuit next to a space rover in the Ramon Crater in the Negev on October 31, 2021. (Amy Spiro)
November 1, 2021, 4:50 pm
Astronauts ‘touch down’ in Negev’s Ramon Crater after mission to ‘Mars’
In a collaboration between the Israel Space Agency and the Austrian Space Forum, 6 analog astronauts spent several weeks simulating life on Red Planet and conducting experiments
By Amy Spiro
A couple of astronauts from a team from Europe and Israel walk in spacesuits during a training mission for planet Mars at a site that simulates an off-site station at the Ramon Crater in Mitzpe Ramon in Israel's southern Negev desert on October 10, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
October 12, 2021, 1:48 am
Six ‘astronauts’ on month-long mission in Israeli desert to prepare for Mars
Participants from Austria, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain simulating life on the Red Planet to perfect the survival skills needed for eventual voyage
By Alexandra Vardi
Aby Har-Even, a former head of the Israel Space Institute, during a lecture at Bar-Ilan University, in February 2013. (Screen capture/YouTube)
June 6, 2021, 10:26 pm
Ex-head of Israel space program dies of Acre hotel attack injuries, weeks later
Rocket scientist Aby Har-Even, 84, succumbs to wounds sustained when rioters torched Efendi Hotel at peak of Arab-Jewish violence last month
By ToI Staff
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