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The Nano Bible built at the Technion. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

Eitan Stiva will take with him the Nano Bible developed and created at the Technion and presented to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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Minister Orit Farkash HaCohen UAE Minister of Advanced Technologies and the UAE Space Agency, Sara Bint Youssef Al Amiri

First cooperation between Israel and the Emirates in space in the study of the Earth using the Venus satellite data

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All research proposals are shared by researchers from Israel and the United Arab Emirates and will work to promote solutions to the Earth's environmental and climate challenges from data collected from space
Eitan Stiva and Amir Ilan, Aleph Farm chef. Photo: Aleph Farms

Sky Mission Experiments Part 3: The rest of the medical experiments, space steak and the student experiments

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Review of scientific experiments and technological demonstrations that will be carried out by Eitan Stiva in the sky mission. Out of 31 missions approved. Third review in a series that also includes four experiments of high school students selected for the flight
An EEG experiment that will examine Eitan Stiva's brain. Photo: brain.space company

Sky Task Experiments Part 2: Studies in the Brain

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Review of scientific experiments and technological demonstrations that will be carried out by Eitan Stiva in the sky mission. Out of 31 missions approved. Second review in the series
Eitan Stiva prepares for his flight to the International Space Station at the SpaceX facilities. Photography: Uri Borg.

Space mission experiments part 1: conducting remote tests and the effect of staying in space on the immune system

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Review of scientific experiments and technological demonstrations that will be carried out by Eitan Stiva in the sky mission. Out of 31 missions approved. First review in the series
The head of NASA in a speech delivered at the 17th Renon conference, January 2022. The conference was held online.

The 17th Ramon Conference: The astronaut from the United Arab Emirates Haz Al Mansour dreams of flying to the moon as well

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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 most exciting programs of the Ministry of Science and the Space Agency in that it connects people and nations, and makes social change." * Uri Oron, CEO of the Israel Space Agency: "The Tevel satellites are further evidence of the technological ability of Israel's students and the ability of space to connect the sectors"
SCD's SWIFT sensor will photograph in infrared from space. PR photo

18.5 million NIS to 11 companies that will develop innovative technological products in the field of space

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This was confirmed by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology in cooperation with the Innovation Authority
TauSat 3 nanosatellite and within it the vault experiment of Tel Aviv University. PR photo

An Israeli nanosatellite launched to the International Space Station will serve as a safe to protect electronic equipment in space

The experiment of Tel Aviv University, known as the "vault" is one of the experiments that Eitan Stiva will conduct, in the sky space mission
Prof. Yehezkel Bernholtz, Aina Pharma. PR photo

An Israeli drug to treat cancer took off for testing on the space station

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The drug, which was developed in Israel by the Aina Pharma company together with a remotely controlled laboratory of the Israeli Space Pharma, was integrated into a regular supply spaceship of SpaceX. Will be tested in zero gravity conditions in space
Participants of the AX-1 mission, including the Israeli Eitan Stiva (left) training in zero gravity in an airplane that simulates it with the help of loop flights. Photo PR, Axiom.

"Eitan Stiva takes the startup nation into space with him"

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A celestial mission (as part of a larger mission - AX-1) is expected to launch on February 21. Ran Levana, CEO of the Ramon Foundation, updates in a conversation with the science website the status of the mission, the preparations, the experiments and the lessons from space that Stiva is expected to broadcast live 
Launch of the RAM1 rocket courtesy of Talmud Raphael

Students from the Hebrew University successfully launched an experimental rocket in the south of the country

Last Friday, an experimental rocket was launched from Kibbutz Beit-Nir. This is an unclassified, unique launch, one of the few made in our region
Simulation of oxygen and metal production on the moon. Illustration: Helios

An Israeli-German agreement was signed to produce oxygen on the lunar soil

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The OHB spacecraft is being built together with Israel Aerospace Industries based on the experience gained in the Genesis project and is planned to carry out a series of tests and fly unique payloads to the moon for the European Space Agency, companies in Europe and around the world.
Uri Oron, Director of the Israel Space Agency. Photo: Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology

Uri Oron was elected director of the Israel Space Agency

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Brigadier General (res.) Uri Oron, fighter pilot, with 32 years of command and operational experience in the Air Force. Since his discharge from the IDF, Oron has built and managed the operative field in an Israeli start-up company that develops technology for solving problems with artificial intelligence tools
A futuristic lunar colony. Illustration: shutterstock

The Israelis who want to build a computing cloud on the moon

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On the occasion of the "Day of the Moon" Prof. Ran Ginosar of the Technion, president of Ramon Space, says in an interview with the website Hidan that the computer of the Genesis spaceship that crashed will have successors in Genesis 2 as well, but there is interest in the technology for various projects, one of which is a server farm for cloud computing on the moon
The splitting of the spacecraft in Genesis 2 into three parts. Image: SpaceIL

starting from the beginning

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In April 2019, the Israeli spacecraft Genesis crashed on the lunar surface. A big disappointment on the side of an impressive achievement. The glorious failure is just a reason to continue: the Genesis 2 project is underway!
The late Avi Har Eben visits the training of the astronauts Ilan Ramon and Yitzhak Mayo (Yavd for a long life) who was for a certain period the Israeli backup astronaut. Photo: Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Science.

Avi Har Evan, one of the top executives of the space industry and CEO of the Space Agency for about a decade died of his wounds

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Har Evan was seriously injured during the fire at the Effendi Hotel in Old Acre, on the night of the riots in the cities involved during Operation Guard of the Walls, May 11, 2021, and since then he has been sedated and ventilated in a serious condition at the Rambam Hospital
Eitan Stiva visiting the Faculty of Medicine in Rehovot, May 27, 2021. Photo: Hebrew University spokesperson

Eitan Stiva came to the Faculty of Agriculture to examine plants that could be grown on Mars

Manny Yitzhak, Vice President of R&D at Kardiosens, with Eitan Stiva. Public relations photo

Cardiosense, Ultrasight and Monfort are sending products to Eitan Stiva's space mission

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In addition to the academic institutions, many Israeli start-up companies also want to send experiments to Operation Rakei. The space agency will finance part of them and Stiva will take care of financing the rest
Ramon Spice employees. Photo: Boaz Furman

Ramon Space raised $17.5 million for supercomputer systems in space

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The company plans to use the fundraising funds to double the number of employees and accelerate the digital revolution that the space industry is undergoing through the development of advanced computer technologies and software.
The president of Bar-Ilan University with the researchers who developed the technology. From left to right: Prof. Yossi Mendel, Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, president of the university, and Prof. Uri Folat.

Technology developed at Bar-Ilan University will track the vision of astronauts in space as part of a sky mission

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Helios' vision for the future of humanity: a base on the moon, with a local oxygen reservoir. PR photo, Helios

An Israeli company will pave the way for human settlement on the moon and Mars

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An Israeli company intends to extract oxygen from the soil of the moon - and fuel SpaceX to Mars The Helios solution, supported by the Israeli Space Agency, may reduce the cost of launches and enable a long-term human presence in deep space
Inbal Kreis, Eitan Stiva and the student Roi Rahin (Becher-Terem experiment). Rami Shloush, spokeswoman for the Technion

Three experiments from the Technion will be launched to the International Space Station

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The experiments at the station will be conducted by the second Israeli in space, Eitan Stiva, who is expected to take off for the mission next year
Link to the image of the experimental system of E. an island. G-Sense. Photo: Roi Zamir

One of the tasks of the second Israeli in space: an EEG test in space

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Monitoring brain dynamics and cognitive function under conditions of being in space. This is the experiment that will be conducted by the head of the cognitive and brain sciences department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dr. Oren Shariki, in collaboration with the Israeli company IG-Sense during Eitan Stiva's stay in space
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