Space and youth

From a video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch, which also carried the 9 Tevel 2 satellites built by Israeli high school students. Photo: SpaceX

Tevel's goal is to give dozens of students a sense of competence and motivation to engage in the field of space.

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This is what Uri Oron, the director of the Israeli Space Agency, said in an interview with the Hidan website: One of the agency's roles is to cultivate human capital, so that the students involved can in the future integrate into both academia and industry.
Satellites aboard the Falcon 9 launcher in Operation TRANSPORTER 13 courtesy of SpaceX

"So far, 20 high school student satellites have been launched into space – a phenomenon unique to Israel"

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In most of the world, satellites are built by at least undergraduate students. This is according to Prof. Meir Ariel, head of the Space Engineering Center at the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University, who headed the Tevel 2 project, which was launched nine years ago.
The Solar Observatory in Isfaia. Credit: Idan Media, Government Press Office

The Solaris Solar Observatory was established in a druz village in israel

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The observatory, located 550 meters above sea level, will be equipped with four telescopes adapted for observing the sun. In addition to its educational and scientific role, the observatory will also collaborate with industry to improve the protection of electronic equipment against
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 have 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 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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SpaceIL group logo

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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Space Archaeology: A spacecraft launched in 1978 is trying to come back to life

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The official logo of SPACE-IL

SpaceIL will receive a $16.4 million donation from the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Family Foundation

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Dr. General Domitro Dorin Pronario, the first Romanian cosmonaut, founder of the "Association of Space Explorers". Photo: Avi Belizovski

Why did Ceaușescu hide the first Romanian cosmonaut from the media?

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Right: Asaf Agmon, head of the Fisher Institute; Paolo Nespoli, an astronaut from the European Space Agency; Bina Bar-On, Director General of the Ministry of Science; Anna Fisher, Astronaut from NASA; Menachem Kidron, Director of the Israel Space Agency; Vetal Inbar from the Fisher Institute. Photo: Yoav Ari Dudkewitz.

President Peres at the space conference: We will become one of the five most important countries in space

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A production line for satellite products at the Elbit-Alup company. Photography: the department of photography in Bezalel

The goal of the space week is to make space in particular and science in general accessible to young people

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Space in the port: an exhibition of space photographs in the port of Tel Aviv during Israel Space Week 2014

Space in the port: an exhibition of space photographs in the port of Tel Aviv during the Israeli Space Week * Admission is free

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NASA Chief Charles Bolden at the Ilan Ramon Space Conference, Herzliya, January 2010

Astronauts, heads of space agencies and space industry personnel at the 9th International Space Conference of the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Science and the Fisher Institute

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The engines of the SPACE IL spacecraft that will land on the moon. PR photo

SpaceIL purchases engines for its spacecraft at the aerospace industry's MLM plant

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A model of one of the Galileo satellites at an exhibition in Berlin, November 2012. Photo: shutterstock

Space Agency CEO Menachem Kidron: International collaborations enable leveraging of the Israeli space industries * Tomorrow: Live broadcast from the space station for Israeli students

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SpaceIL - the jump phase to a distance of 500 m after the first landing. The jump will be made with the last drops of fuel, to a height of 220 meters. During the jump, a 500 meter long optical fiber will be deployed. PR photo

Revealing initial details about the journey to the moon and SpaceIL's unique technologies

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From a booklet issued by the Space Company in 2003 for the launch of Amos 2

Blue and white space - Space Week events in Israel

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President Shimon Peres signs the foundation page of the Israeli moon spacecraft project, on the back of high-tech man Arel Margalit. Also on stage is Yariv Bash, one of the founders of SPACE-IL

The President of the State today launched the project to place the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon - Space IL

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The model of the Israeli SPACE-IL spacecraft that is supposed to fly to the moon as part of the Google X Prize competition

The Israeli group participating in the Google competition to land a spacecraft on the moon, unveiled the model of the spacecraft

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The Director General of the Ministry of Science Menachem Greenblum (right), President Shimon Peres examine a robotic butterfly developed by Prof. Dobi Binyamini of the Aerospace Industry in the premises of the Ministry of Science and Technology as part of an open house of the President of the State. 16/10/2011 Photo: Gili Yaari, for the Ministry of Science

Science, space and technology complex at the President's open house that will be held today (Monday)

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The late Ilan Ramon on the Columbia shuttle, on flight STS-107. Photo: NASA

Reminder: Scientists' Night at the science museums and 10 campuses across the country

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The first Israeli nanosatellite, Inklajn-1, in the assembly room

INSA (the Association for Tiny Satellites) completed the construction of the first Israeli nanosatellite

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel. Photo: Kobi Kantor for People and Computers

The Yuval Na'eman workshop for science, technology and security will host senior officials at NASA

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Israeli nano satellite to the moon. Figure: SPACEIL Group

An Israeli group is raising a budget to land a nano-satellite on the moon as part of the Lunar Xprize competition

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Banner of the Ramon Foundation scholarship for Israeli students to study at the International Space University

The flag of the Ramon Foundation scholarship for Israeli students to study at the International Space University will fly into space

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The International Year of Astronomy has begun

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A reproduction (replica) of Galileo's original telescope is placed in the Museum of Technology

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Aviation and Space Day will be held in Rishon Lezion on Independence Day

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