Israeli spacecraft

Israel's Dror-1 satellite reaches orbit 36,000 km. above Earth, begins mission

The satellite’s first orbiting of Earth will take only 30 hours. After that, it will slow down and orbit Earth five times over a period of two weeks.

 Israel Aerospace Industries launches communications satellite "Dror 1" into space, July 13, 2025.
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SpaceIL and the German Aerospace Center launch new agreement

VENµS satellite

IAI extends lifespan of VENµS satellite

The Adelis-SAMSON nanosatellite.

WATCH: Technion launches three satellites into space


Ariel University to send research nanosatellite SATLLA-1 into orbit

SATLLA-1's mission, which starts on Thursday, is to test out its star-tracking program, which helps the satellite position itself by using imaging from the surrounding stars.

The SATLLA-1 nanosatellite

SpaceX successfully launches Israeli Amos-17 satellite

Spacecom says it will be the most advanced satellite to provide communication services to sub-Saharan Africa.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Israeli-owned Amos-17 commercial communications satellite, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral

Beresheet, resilience and the Jewish people

A simple and elegant way to define resilience in layman’s terms is, “the ability to at all times and under all circumstances retain one’s basic humanity.”

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.

SpaceIL to create and launch second Beresheet spacecraft

The first Beresheet spacecraft was largely successful, despite not having landed on the moon. Beresheet 2.0 is expected to complete the task.

ISRAEL HOPES the Beresheet project will showcase the country’s achievements

Israel's Beresheet set to make history, land on moon today

Only three countries have completed the formidable task of landing a spacecraft on the lunar surface - the United States, Russia and China.

Far side of the moon by Beresheet, April 10, 2019

Capturing the moon – Beresheet gears up to escape Earth’s gravity

The nation holds its breath as Beresheet is meant to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull on Thursday, will the April 11 celebrations be held or will it melt near the sun?

Beresheet and its route to the moon

Wanna see the sunrise from space? Israeli craft Beresheet has the video

The spacecraft is in its largest elliptical orbit around the earth and is scheduled to intersect the moon’s orbit and be captured in it on April 4 at 251,655 miles from earth.

Sunrise photo from Beresheet spacecraft

Beresheet completes another successful maneuver en route to Moon

SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries engineers completed the maneuver at 3:11 p.m. local time.

Beresheet and its route to the moon

To the Moon

Tiny Israel is again in the news, this time for something remarkable for any nation.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Israel’s first spacecraft designed to land on the moon is prepared for launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida on February 21

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly talks biology, chemistry, physics and space

"Day one of a year in space, and I’m thinking to myself, man, this is a stupid thing to be doing. You can’t get away, you can’t call an Uber."

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly with Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis.

Moon walk

“The spacecraft project will enable every Israeli, but especially future generations, to understand that even the citizens of a small country may and should dream big."

The Space IL lunar spacecraft 'Beresheet'