Archive for Space
Israeli Satellite Might Growing
A couple stories about Israeli satellites got into the news recently. The Jerusalem Post reports that the IDF will be upgrading its reconnaissance and surveillance capability to provide real-time intelligence even when its satellites are not over Israel. Also, Spacecom is growing its satellite fleet to accomodate worldwide growth, including for the surprisingly high demand [...]
Read moreOne Giant Shlep For Mankind
The Jewish calendar and all major Jewish holidays are driven by the cycles of the moon. Considering its centrality to marking time in Judaism, isn’t it about time Jews paid a visit to our only natural satellite? Thanks to 3 young Israeli scientists, such a visit just might take place in 2012. According to this [...]
Read more2010: The Year We Made Contracts
In 2010, Arthur C. Clarke’s sequel to the classic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Soviet Union still exists, astronauts are orbiting Jupiter, and Earthlings encounter extraterrestrial life. Well it’s 2010, the Soviet Union is long gone, we still haven’t made it past the moon, and the closest we’ve come to bumping into ET [...]
Read moreTo Infinity & Beyond
It will likely come as a surprise to many people that little Israel was recently ranked the world’s #2 country in space sciences based upon a combination of papers published and cited. It’s quite possible that Israel would’ve been ranked #1, but Dan Blumberg, head of the department of geography and environmental development at Ben-Gurion [...]
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