A joint UAE-Israel committee will choose one proposal to receive $200,000 to monitor the environment and vegetation on earth using data.

The Ramon.Space digital payload will perform space computing during the mission, including software updates and upgrades.

NSLComm's technology permits antennas to be stowed during launch in a compact volume and deploy while in orbit, saving mass, volume, and supporting structures.

The launch comes almost three years after a spectacular launchpad explosion destroyed Spacecom's Amos-6 satellite and the SpaceX rocket it was on in September 2016.

Although it was scheduled to launch in 2008, the Israeli-French satellite VENµS will finally get its trip to the stars next year. The satellite is Israeli-made, equipped with a French superspectral camera, and will be used to monitor agriculture from outer-space.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to produce quality analysis of pollution in major cities around the world – using readings taken in outer space. Using eight years' worth of data collected by NASA satellites, the researchers tracked pollution trends for 189 megacities.