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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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Spacecom canceled its Amos-8 order after the Israeli government said it would contract directly with Israel Aerospace Industries for Amos-8 and place the satellite at an orbital slot assigned to Spacecom.
Israel Aerospace Industries nearly shut down its geostationary satellite communications production line in 2018 after Spacecom chose to order the Amos-8 satellite from Space Systems Loral (now Maxar Technologies).
In 2018, Israel Aerospace Industries was ordered to pay Spacecom $10,000,000 for late delivery of the Amos-6 satellite.
The Israeli government later directed Israel Aerospace Industries to build an Amos-8 satellite, prompting Spacecom to cancel its manufacturing and launch contracts for Amos-8.
Israel Aerospace Industries nearly shut down its geostationary communications satellite manufacturing line in 2018 after losing a competition to SSL (now Maxar Technologies) to build the Amos-8 satellite.
Israel Aerospace Industries builds remote-sensing satellites but has not gained significant traction with commercial telecommunications satellite operators.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lunar lander for the non-profit SpaceIL, and the lander crashed on the moon's surface in April 2019.
Israel Aerospace Industries signed an agreement with Firefly Aerospace to use the Beresheet lander design as the basis for a lander called Genesis that Firefly is offering as part of its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract.
Israel Aerospace Industries nearly closed its communications satellite business last year before the Israeli government required Amos-8 to be built domestically rather than by Maxar Technologies in California.
Israel Aerospace Industries worked with German company OHB to study development of a Beresheet-based lander for European Space Agency missions.
On 2019-07-09 Firefly Aerospace signed an Intellectual Property and Engineering Support Agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries for technology based on the Beresheet lunar lander.
Firefly Aerospace plans to work with Israel Aerospace Industries to develop lunar landers for NASA.
Firefly Aerospace announced its partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries on 2019-07-09.
Israel Aerospace Industries has an agreement with German company OHB from January 2019 to study the use of Beresheet-based landers for future European Space Agency missions.
Israel Aerospace Industries is speaking with several groups about teaming up to build landers from the United States to meet CLPS program requirements.
Israel Aerospace Industries plans small modifications to the Beresheet lander design to allow it to accommodate 30 to 60 kg of scientific payloads depending on whether the spacecraft is launched directly to the moon or placed into a transfer orbit.
SpaceIL contracted with Israel Aerospace Industries to build the Beresheet lander.
Israel Aerospace Industries built the lander for SpaceIL and is studying other opportunities for using that lander system, including a partnership with German company OHB to study its use for European Space Agency missions.
Israel Aerospace Industries scheduled a few smaller maneuvers to optimize Beresheet’s trajectory in the days after 2019-03-19 and planned no major burns before lunar arrival.
Israel Aerospace Industries planned slight modifications to the Beresheet design, particularly to the upper deck, to support payloads weighing 30 to 60 kg depending on the initial launch orbit.