This is the key message conveyed by NASA and the Israel Space Agency at the Space Tech event on Oct. 25 in Arlington, attended by space-related startups and established companies.
Israel is now a major player in technology.
Don Richardson, director of Cassiopeia Space Systems Inc. (CSS), a company based in Wakefield, Virginia, created a joint venture with Israel’s Over-SAT and developed the RIGEL Satcom terminal. Binational R Fund.
“An Israeli personal enterprise recently propelled our country into the club of the 4 countries that landed on the moon,” Uri Oran, director general of the Israel Space Agency, said at a U. S. space technology event. U. S. Israel, which took place at Virginia Tech Briefing. Center in Arlington on October 25. A $100 million personally controlled and funded mission, called Beresheet 2 (Beresheet is the Hebrew call for the Bible’s first e-book, Genesis), is expected to launch in 2024. a trillion-dollar market,” Oran added, “one of the Israel Space Agency’s priorities is to expand a national infrastructure to be a one-stop shop for sellers to create personal businesses. “
In the presence of representatives of space-related startups and identified generation companies, as well as governments and other stakeholders, the occasion followed for only 3 weeks the first assembly of the US-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue on Technology. The U. S. and Israel Advisor, held at the White House and led through National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Israel’s National Security Advisor. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid introduced the discussion to identify a partnership on critical and emerging technologies.
NASA’s Dr. Eliad Peretz, principal investigator of new space missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, noted NASA’s openness to private sector involvement when he briefed the organization on the problems of companies accessing NASA to get NASA investments for its core research tasks. the addition of small businesses. Innovation Research Grants (SBIR).
According to Noémie Alliel, CEO of Starburst Israel, who gave a presentation at the event, “The program will seed and seed startups and focus on accelerating the product market. Have compatibility with key design partners in the global Starburst ecosystem that will provide the beta site. and financing,” Alliel said.
NASA’s Dr. Eliad Peretz (right) holds a device that identifies and tracks “debris” from the area to collisions. Scout CEO Eric Ingram (left) of Norfolk, Virginia, evolved the product.
The Virginia Israel Advisory Board (VIAB), a state-owned company that establishes economic, cultural and school ties between Israel and Virginia, organized Space Tech with the Arlington County Economic Development Agency and TYPE5, a generation investment group. Virginia Israel Advisory Board Executive Director Dov Hoch said he is running with Virginia Education Secretary Aimee Rogstad Guidera to expand a STEM education program involving Virginia scholars with Israel’s Beresheet 2 lunar lander. with tracking activities in Array,” Hoch said.
“We were thrilled to marry VIAB to host the U. S. -Israel space technology event in Arlington,” said Marian Marquez, Arlington’s acting deputy director of economic development. “Earlier this year, I met with Israeli tech corporations in Tel Aviv that are driving innovation in the area with advertising and defense applications, and we have many wonderful corporations here in Northern Virginia doing the same. Space Tech brought them together.
The Arlington collection built on the momentum of the space generation collaboration between Virginia and Israeli companies that began in 2021 when Mil-SAT, based in Wakefield, Virginia, partnered with Israel’s Over-SAT in a joint venture to create Cassiopeia Space Systems Inc. (CSS). CSS presented its RIGEL Satcom terminal at Space Tech. “I am very proud and excited to be working with Over-Sat on this revolutionary generation of new LEO networks,” said Don Richardson, director of CSS.
The company’s initial $1 million investment came from R’s fund.
Other presenters included Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s largest defense contractor based in Herndon, Virginia; Kevin Pomfret, spouse of the law firm Williams Mullen and member of the Space Law Committee of the International Bar Association; and Professor Vassilios Kovanis, founding member of Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus and ECE director of ECE Meng’s Bradley Department, who presented the relevance of Virginia Tech’s paintings in the quantum computing box as an enabling generation for space-related disorders and gave a presentation on the Innovation Campus.
“For me, Space Tech is the ‘first step’ in space-related partnerships between Virginia and Israeli companies,” said VIAB’s Hoch. “It’s a glorious follow-up to an occasion in 2021 when then-Governor Northam invited an unmanned systems delegation. Earlier this month, UVision, an unmanned Israeli defense contractor, opened a facility in Stafford.
For information, contact: Dov Hoch, Virginia Israel Advisory Board
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