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Engineering model of the Genesis 2 lander. Courtesy of SPACEIL

The Knesset Committee for Public Enterprises is discussing the rescue of the Genesis 2 project that was damaged by the war

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Prof. Dan Bloomberg, chairman of the Israel Space Agency: "We faced a crisis of students in the STEM fields - which resulted from changes in Israeli society. A project like 'Bereshit' motivates students to become interested and end up studying engineering
Prof. Larry Wasserman at the Mitzpe Lovell Pavilion at the Solar Eclipse Viewing Festival in Waco, Texas, on April 8, 2024. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse: Interview with Larry Wasserman, Wall Observatory on Double Stars, Kuiper Belt and Carl Sagan 

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The accessibility of science is very important to Prof. Wasserman, following his teacher, and he is happy for the opportunity to bring many young people, including children, to science on this occasion of a heavenly event that receives public interest
Award winners Ramon Tashpad credit Elad Zagman to p

Aut Ramon 2024 winners

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Students develop a satellite. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Launched the second cycle of the "Tabl - students build satellites" program

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The barbell nebula. Photo courtesy of Kinneret Academic College

The Kinneret Academic College is launching the first robotic telescope in Israel that anyone can make observations with

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The robotic telescope that will be placed on campus will be accessible to the public - remotely. Through a dedicated website, you can now order photographs of the Great Bear or the North Star directly to your mobile phone. According to the college president,
Omri Dinor. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Meet the students who built the world satellites

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About 250 students from eight local authorities participated in the construction of eight satellites that were launched into space on Thursday. We spoke with three of them, and realized that they received training in programming and satellites but also in managing complex projects
Satellite launch event, 13/1/22. Photo: Ronen Horesh, CEO

The eight Tavel student satellites were successfully launched and began sending signals

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Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Orit Farkash HaCohen: The Tevel program promotes the students' scientific and technological knowledge and arouses curiosity and inspiration to engage in the field. It is one of the exciting programs of the Ministry of Science and the Space Agency
A selfie sent by the Genesis spacecraft from 22 km above the moon during the landing process that ultimately failed. Photo by SPACEIL and the Aerospace Industry.

Len Levtnik donated one million dollars to the initial start-up of the Genesis 2 project

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The launch of the Dokifat 3 satellite from the Indian launcher, 11/12/2019. Screenshot.

The student satellite "Dukhipat 3" was successfully launched into space

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The students of the "Jordan" school from Ma'ale Ephraim in Samaria who won first place. Source: Courtesy of the Israeli Center for Excellence in Education.

A space competition for school students has ended

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Simulation of the "Venus" satellite. Source: Ministry of Science.

The high school students who will analyze the information from the Venus research satellite

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Duchifat 2 goes into orbit in space (screen shot, ISS).

A signal from space: The Israeli student satellite was launched from the space station

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Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying Orbital's Cygnus supply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Among other things, its payload contains the Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2

The children overcame all the obstacles that were on the way in the development of the Dokifat 2 satellite

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Alma Friedan, an 2th grade student at the School of Engineering in Herzliya and a member of the Dokifat XNUMX project at the Science Center in Herzliya. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"We built a training system in which the graduates train the young people entering the Dokifat 2 project"

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The moment of the launch of the Atlas 5 launcher and inside it a supply spacecraft to the International Space Station, including the Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2, 18/4/17. NASA photo

The Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2 was successfully launched into space today

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NASA head Charles Bolden, science minister Ofir Akunis, and Givatayim mayor Ran Konik with children and teachers at the city's observatory. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The head of NASA calls on researchers and companies from Israel to participate in experiments on the space station, and in the development of capabilities for a flight to Mars

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(From right to left): and Korean astronaut Yi Soo-yeon, Science Minister Ofir Akunis, NASA astronaut Joseph Akba. (Photo: Ron Shelf)

Space Week events have opened

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Placing a comet launcher in the Eretz Israel Museum complex in Tel Aviv. Photo: Ministry of Science

What is a rocket launcher doing in the center of Tel Aviv?

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Science Minister Ofir Akunis at the SpaceIL booth at the IAC space conference in Jerusalem, November 2015. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"So far you can touch": Israel Space Week events initiated by the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Science

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A colony on another planet. Illustration: shutterstock

Encourage the children to study astronomy

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Simulation of the launch of SpaceIL's Israeli spacecraft to the moon from the third stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is expected towards the end of 2017. Photo: Courtesy of SpaceIL

A big step on the way to the moon - SpaceIL signed with SpaceX to launch the spacecraft to the moon in about two years

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Group member Or Tamir with a model of "spaghetti" against the background of an illustration of a hook. Photographs: Jonathan Ashur, NASA

Students from Jerusalem won the Space Olympics for Ilan and Assaf Ramon

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The deadline for the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition has been postponed until the end of 2016

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A photograph of the Las Vegas crater taken by the European Mars Express spacecraft on November 27, 2014. Photo: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

90 thousand ordinary citizens broadcast a radio message to Mars to promote space exploration

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Members of the Ort Arad delegation hold the medals and certificates after winning first places in the Space Olympics held in Russia, October 2014. Photo: Public Relations

Israeli students won high places in the Space Olympics held in Russia last month

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