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In 2019, Israel’s SpaceIL successfully launched its robotic lunar lander, Beresheet, into space. Although the vehicle crashed on landing, the mission made the Jewish state the seventh country to make a lunar orbit and the fourth country to attempt a soft landing on the Moon.
Despite that impressive achievement, Israel is not exactly synonymous with space exploration or even deep-space technology, although it does have an active space-tech sector in areas such as surveillance satellite development.
Experts say now is the time to accelerate deep-space efforts because this area is expected to become significant in the upcoming decades.
SpaceIL CEO Shimon Sarid and Creation-Space COO Chen Dudai are both Technion alumni.