Israel Space Week

Ramon Foundation hosts children’s event marking Space Week

The Ramon Foundation, established in honor of first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, aims to advance space education and industry throughout Israel.

|ByARIELLA ROITMAN
NASA ASTRONAUT Garrett Reisman with one of the two winning classes at the Ramon Foundation Space Week event — a SpaceINT program class from David Tuviyahu Comprehensive School in Be’er Sheva.
Uri Oron, Director-General of the Israel Space Agency.

Israeli Space Forum to be launched to spur growth of multi-billion shekel industry

The goal of the forum is to allow different companies and entrepreneurs to link up with investors, government bodies, academics, and global players in the space sector.

|ByAARON REICH
From left: Innovation, Science, and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and NASA deputy director Robert. D Cabana are seen at Israel Space Week.

To boldly go: Israel Space Week set to return amid Hamas war

Israel Space Week sees major figures in the national space sector and from abroad come together for a week of science and business in the country's growing space industry.

|ByAARON REICH
ISA director Uri Oron (on the left) and NASA Associate Administrator, Robert (Bob) Cabana (on the right) sign a statement of intent to cooperate on the Beresheet2 lunar mission, on February 1, 2023.

NASA, Israel Space Agency to cooperate on Beresheet 2 lunar mission

Israel is set to get full support from the US space agency on their widely anticipated return to the Moon, set to launch in 2025.

|ByAARON REICH

NASA's Artemis I mission Orion capsule splashes down after Moon trip

Riding on board the Artemis mission was Commander "Moonikin" Campos and two manikin torsoes, Zohar and Helga, courtesy of the Israel Space Agency and Germany's DLR, respectively.

DECEMBER 11, 2022ByREUTERS
NASA's Orion Capsule is drawn to the well deck of the USS Portland after it splashed down following a successful uncrewed Artemis I Moon Mission on December 11, 2022 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

Israel’s first lunar spacecraft, Beresheet, blasts off - analysis

Israel is only the fourth country after the US, the former Soviet Union and China to embark on a mission to the moon.

FEBRUARY 24, 2019ByYAFIT OVADIA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Israel's first spacecraft designed to land on the moon lifts off on the first privately-funded lunar mission at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Globular clusters found in the Milky Way

These three new clusters are noteworthy due to their age and deficiencies in metal-like substances.

JANUARY 29, 2019ByYAFIT OVADIA
An example of a globular cluster, Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) in the constellation of Centaurus.

Holocaust-era drawing Ilan Ramon took to space going up again

Thursday would have been the 90th birthday of Ginz, who was killed in Auschwitz at the age of 16.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Rona Ramon holding a picture of Ilan Ramon with a copy of the "Moon Landscape" before his mission to space in 2003; also in the picture NASA Astronaut Tom Marsburn and his wife Ann, who are attending the Israel Space Week events.

Upside-down ‘MasterChef’ judge Haim Cohen prepares cosmic falafel

In space, astronauts have vials with salt and pepper solutions to inject into the food.

JANUARY 25, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
CHEF HAIM COHEN tries to make a falafel in a reenactment of space for the Science and Technology Ministry’s Space Week activities, which are launched on January 28, 2018..

TAU establishing space center to create shoebox-size research satellites

The satellites, which can be deployed in a short time and at a relatively low cost, will provide satellite technology to the scientific community throughout the TAU campus.

JANUARY 24, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Tel Aviv University

World Space Week to wow attendees

Space Week will include free lectures on space in Beersheba pubs, observations of stars at planetariums, virtual reality events and more.

OCTOBER 1, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL
Isaac Ben Israel