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Grove Ventures' Renana Ashkenazi (second from right) discusses space investments, Jan. 31, 2023. Photo by Ronen Horesh/GPO.

January 31, 2023

Billionaire Elon Musk. Source: Facebook.

Activists have smuggled the Starlink receivers into the country to circumvent regime limits on communication.

December 28, 2022

A SpaceX rocket launch. Credit: Oleg Yakovlev/Shutterstock.

SpaceX launches into orbit eight satellites built by Israeli high school students

The teams, who spent three years on the project, gathered with officials in Florida to watch the live launch via video from NASA.

Shimon Yaish

January 14, 2022

A view of the Arab Peninsula and Southeast Africa taken by the “Beresheet” Israeli spacecraft from a distance of 16,000 kilometers. Credit: SpaceIL.

‘Beresheet 2’ won’t attempt moon landing, SpaceIL searches for new challenge

“The journey of ‘Beresheet’ to the moon, despite the hard landing, will last in the memory of Israel and the world as a successful one, a breakthrough,” SpaceIL said in a statement.

June 25, 2019

NASA released photos of the crash area by SpaceIL's “Beresheet” spacecraft, which failed to land on the moon, April 11, 2019. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.

NASA releases photographs of ‘Beresheet’ lunar crash

“The cameras captured a dark smudge, about 10 meters wide, that indicates the point of impact,” said NASA. “The dark tone suggests a surface roughened by the hard landing, which is less reflective than a clean, smooth surface.”

May 16, 2019

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 12, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: ‘We look forward’ to being part of ‘Beresheet 2’

“This administration has been a very strong supporter of Israel, and they’ve been supportive of our efforts to collaborate with Israel off-space exploration, so it’s been a productive relationship.”

Jackson Richman

May 7, 2019

Selfie image as the spacecraft prepared for its lunar landing in April 2019. Credit: “Beresheet.”

Israeli victories on earth and in the heavens

The “Beresheet” project proves that as far as Israel is concerned, the sky is not the limit.

Krygier Daniel

April 17, 2019

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (right) and SpaceIL president Morris Kahn at an introduction of the Israeli spacecraft "Beresheet" at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Feb. 17, 2018. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

After lunar crashing, SpaceIL announces Beresheet 2.0

“I’ve decided that we are going to actually establish ‘Beresheet 2,’ ” SpaceIL chairman Morris Kahn said in a video released by SpaceIL. “We’re actually going to build a new [spacecraft], we’re going to put it on the moon, and we are going to complete the mission.”

April 14, 2019

Alexander Friedman, left, directs a control room of 25 Israeli scientists monitoring the “Beresheet” satellite as it made its way to the moon. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Israel in space: A bittersweet night for Israel and Judaism

As disappointing as it was not landing properly, it is first a success that we made it at all, and second a reminder of all the symbolism involved in Judaism. And that our destiny is to struggle at first, and then repent and return and succeed in the end.

Yechiel Stein

April 12, 2019

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