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The team was awarded the prize at the 2019 Visioneering Summit in Los Angeles hosted by XPrize.

A lifesize Lego structure of SpaceIL’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft, created by Israeli artist Yuval Dvorin, will be unveiled by Morris Kahn, philanthropist and SpaceIL president, at the launch of the month-long Lego Space Park opening Thursday at the Tel Aviv Convention Center, The Jerusalem Post reported. The structure is a replica of the SpaceIL lunar […]

Firefly is set to build a new lunar lander based on the Israeli spacecraft's blueprints as part of a NASA program to deliver science payloads to the moon.

The non-profit behind Israel's journey to the moon says embarking on a similar journey would not be setting the bar high enough.

The Ministry of Science and Technology is providing additional funds for Israel's second attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon.

In a true testament to Israeli resilience and determination, SpaceIL says it will complete its mission.

Israel looks forward to the next space ventures, engineers will study Beresheet mission.

Watch parties and live streams await as Israel gears up to become the 4th country to complete a lunar landing.

The spacecraft will perform its final maneuver in 24 hours as it prepares to land on the moon on Thursday.

At 9:00 AM Israel Time yesterday (2:00 AM ET), Beresheet, the Israeli spacecraft that is making its way to the moon, successfully completed another maneuver to make final adjustments before leaving Earth’s orbit and joining the moon’s orbit. In the maneuver, SpaceIL and IAI engineering teams started and ran the spacecraft’s engines for 72 seconds. […]

Beresheet is remarkable because almost everything about the unmanned spacecraft goes against convention.

An Israeli startup behind computing infrastructure that can endure the harsh conditions of space has raised $26 million. Ramon.Space’s computing technology can store, process and analyze large amounts of data while in orbit. By equipping satellites with powerful computers that have advanced storage, computing and connectivity capabilities, the company’s solutions enable data-driven applications and services […]

The Israel Innovation Authority has awarded a grant of 1.2 million shekels (approximately $330,000) to a startup developing technology for use in space.  Maris-Tech is working on the production of peripheral photography, recording, transmission, and artificial intelligence for nanosatellites and space platforms.   The grant is for the first year of development of the project, with […]

Israel may be a tiny country, barely visible from space, but it’s ahead of most of the world in getting there. In September 1998 it became only the eighth country in the world to put an object in space, with the launch of its Ofek 1 reconnaissance satellite. Two decades later its Beresheet unmanned spacecraft […]

Startup creates virtual simulations of zero gravity and freezing temperatures