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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) traces its origin to Bedek Aviation Company, founded 1953 under Ministry of Defense director-general Shimon Peres to maintain Israeli Air Force aircraft, led by American-born aviation expert Al Schwimmer. Renamed Israel Aircraft Industries as it expanded into full aircraft design/manufacturing (Arava, Kfir, Lavi, Westwind), and renamed Israel Aerospace Industries around 2006 to reflect its growing space and satellite business (Ofek, Amos satellite programs).
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EROS C3 has a mass of 400 kg and is based on Israel Aerospace Industries’ OPTSAT-3000 bus.
EROS C1 and EROS C2 may be part of the Ofeq series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites built by Israel Aerospace Industries that operate in mid-inclination retrograde orbits.
Israel Aerospace Industries developed a small geostationary orbit communications satellite bus called the Mini Communications Satellite (MCS).
Israel Aerospace Industries is the latest company to offer a small geostationary satellite product.
MCS is based on technologies Israel Aerospace Industries is developing for Dror-1, including the digital payload and avionics.
Dror-1 is a communications satellite being built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Israeli government under a contract awarded in January 2020.
Israel Aerospace Industries targets smaller operators for the Mini Communications Satellite who do not require larger geostationary satellites.
Arrow Electronics, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, IAI North America, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are partners working with the 2021 Techstars Space Accelerator class.
Firefly announced a July 2019 partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries to license the Genesis lander that IAI developed for SpaceIL’s Beresheet mission.
Israel Aerospace Industries will support Firefly’s Blue Ghost project to leverage lessons learned from the Beresheet mission, which crashed attempting a lunar landing in April 2019.
SpaceX launched the Beresheet lunar lander built by Israel Aerospace Industries as a secondary payload on a Falcon 9 in February 2019.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Shavit launch vehicle used to launch Ofek 16.
Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries in July 2019 to use Beresheet lander technology for its Genesis lunar lander.
OHB and Israel Aerospace Industries signed an agreement in January 2019 to cooperate on the Lunar Surface Access Service program to deliver payloads to the lunar surface.
Under the Lunar Surface Access Service program OHB will serve as the prime contractor and handle payloads while Israel Aerospace Industries will provide a lander based on the design of SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander.
German space company OHB is planning a commercial lunar lander mission in cooperation with Israel Aerospace Industries in late 2022.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lander that attempted to land on the moon in April 2019.
Israel Aerospace Industries specializes in building optical and synthetic aperture radar satellites weighing around 300 to 400 kg.
BGUSAT is a 3U imaging cubesat built by Israel Aerospace Industries with Ben Gurion University that launched in 2017 on an Indian PSLV rocket.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Italian Ministry of Defence’s Optsat-3000 satellite.