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Iran's missile program. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Iran's ballistic missile program and the relationship to the space program - a review following the barrage of missiles fired at Israel

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Iran claims that its missile industry is defensive in nature and designed to deter potential attackers, not to be used as an attack weapon. The Iranian space program is also a tool for the ballistic missile program
The milky way is used by the dung beetle for navigation at night. Image: University of South Australia

Innovative artificial intelligence sensor draws inspiration from dung beetles for night navigation using the Milky Way

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Dung beetles use the milky way at night to navigate. Engineers used the same technique to develop an artificial intelligence sensor for low-light navigation
A Lockheed Martin employee during the assembly of the Orion spacecraft. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Lockheed Martin will purchase Tern Orbital for $450 million

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Terran Orbital is a satellite manufacturer that mainly serves the aerospace and defense industries. Terran Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by integrating satellite design, manufacturing, launch planning, mission management
The means for surveying agricultural areas: satellites, photo planes, drones. From the study

Satellites and drones can save the pollinating insects

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Satellites and drones can provide vital information that can contribute to the protection of pollinators in nature. New research examines new ways of utilizing these technologies in order to track the availability of flowers, when research
Clusters of satellites, such as the BlueWalker 3 prototype, are causing concern among astronomers due to possible interference with night sky observations and radio astronomy. Balancing the global needs for communication and maintaining astronomical research is critical. Credit: AST SpaceMobile

A prototype of a large low-orbit communications satellite is troubling astronomers

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The BlueWalker 3 satellite whose antenna area is 64 square meters has become one of the brightest objects in the night sky, the fear is that when there are a hundred satellites in this constellation and hundreds in other constellations it will be impossible to watch the sky
Aliens are listening for signals from Earth. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Can aliens discover us? New research explains

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What could aliens pick up from the radio leak from Earth? How would Earth look to an alien civilization light years away from us?
Hubble Space Telescope. Courtesy of NASA

Suggestion: move the grieving to a safe track and prolong his life

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Astroscale's collaboration with the Momentos company offers NASA a commercial solution that will allow the famous satellite - which recently celebrated its 33rd birthday - to be attached and towed to an orbit that will also be cleaned of space debris
space debris Courtesy of the European Space Agency.

Astroscale: Spacecraft and satellite manufacturers should commit to a significant reduction in the number of abandoned objects in space

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Satellite manufacturers, spacecraft operators and the like need to make specific and verifiable commitments to limit the number of objects actually in space, not just the predicted number of abandoned objects they produce.
A military satellite attacks another satellite with a laser. In the first step, the Russians build a laser that will blind satellites from the ground. Image: depositphotos.com

The Russians are building a laser that blinds satellites - an expert explains the technology

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If the Russian government is able to build the laser, it will be able to protect a large part of the country from observation by satellites with optical sensors. Technology also sets the stage for the more threatening possibility
ESA's Laser Ranging Station in Tenerife aims its green laser at the sky. Credit: ESA

A laser observation station will make it possible to identify dangers of satellite collisions and space debris

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The European Space Agency station in Tenerife is a technology testing facility and an essential first step in making waste reduction widely accessible to all actors in space who have an impact on the future of our space environment *
The "sandwich" concept that NASA proposed for building an energy satellite. Photo: NASA

Interstellar electricity

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The cover of the book Satellites and the New Space, published by Efi Meltzer, courtesy of Prof. Haim Ashad

The New Space Revolution - from the book "Satellites and the New Space"

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Communication satellite. Source: NASA.

Ministry of Science: "We will promote a communication satellite owned by the Israeli government"

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A Love rocket launched a "disco ball" into space - and angered astronomers

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The satellite Venus. Source: Raphael.

Rafael announces the operationalization of the unique propulsion system of the Venus satellite

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Arya Helzband. Photo: Eyal Yitzhar.

An interview with Aryeh Halzband, the founder of the Israeli start-up for servicing satellites in space

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Tel Aviv University is establishing a center for small satellite technology

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Simulation of the SPACE DRONE satellite developed by Effective Space. PR photo.

Israel's Effective Space signed a contract to extend the life of two communication satellites

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HASP High-altitude pseudo satellites, image: European Space Agency

The European Space Agency is developing a hybrid of drones and satellites

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Satellites make it possible to locate areas of extreme poverty in Africa. Landsat series satellite imaging, which, among other things, makes it possible to help poverty-stricken areas. Source: NASA.

Ideas that will change the world: software for locating poverty centers

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Drought in Africa in 2006: areas with abundant vegetation are shown in green, areas with less healthy and thriving vegetation are brown. Photo: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of Jennifer Small, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center

Why does NASA follow cows?

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The signing event of a new agreement for cooperation between Israel and France signed today to promote the Ormad research project - a device developed by MGS that will test the space environment. The signing ceremony was attended by the heads of the Israeli Space Agency - Chairman Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel and CEO Menachem Kidron, and Minister Aconis, head of the French Space Agency and French Ambassador to Israel. Photo: Israel Ben-Eli, CEO

Israel and France announced the development of a joint detector for sensing the space environment by satellites

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Ofer Doron, CEO of Mabat-Challel at the 2015th Cyber ​​Conference, January XNUMX at Tel Aviv University. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Cyber ​​protection of space assets is a growing field. More and more satellite operators became aware of the risks

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The gecko experiment on the Photon M4 satellite during preparations for launch. From the website of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Russia, IMBP

Russia has lost control of an experimental satellite with geckos on it

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Simulation of the orbits of the Russian satellite and the Chinese space fragment as done by AGI, January 2013

A piece of space debris from the satellite that the Chinese blew up in 2007 damaged a Russian satellite

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