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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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Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lander and partnered with German company OHB in January to commercialize the lander platform for potential future missions by the European Space Agency or other national space agencies.
Israel Aerospace Industries partnered with German spacecraft builder OHB to offer a version of the Beresheet lander to the European Space Agency for commercial lunar payload delivery.
Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology committed government financial support to have Amos-8 built in Israel by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Spacecom purchased Amos-8 from SSL in March 2018 and terminated that contract three weeks after the Israeli government indicated intent to order a domestically built satellite from IAI.
Israel Aerospace Industries shipped the SpaceIL lander Beresheet earlier 2019-01 from Israel to Cape Canaveral for final preparations for launch.
Under the teaming agreement, Israel Aerospace Industries will offer a version of the lunar lander it built for SpaceIL for use on ESA missions.
The 2019-01-29 teaming agreement between Israel Aerospace Industries and OHB System was signed during the Ilan Ramon Space Conference in Israel.
Israel Aerospace Industries signed a teaming agreement with OHB System on 2019-01-29 to offer commercial delivery of payloads to the lunar surface for the European Space Agency.
Workers installed a digital time capsule consisting of three discs into the SpaceIL spacecraft during a 2018-12-17 ceremony at an Israel Aerospace Industries facility.
Spacecom ordered Amos-6 from Israel Aerospace Industries in 2012 for $200,000,000.
In mid-October, Spacecom was negotiating with Israel Aerospace Industries to build Amos-8 following Israeli government involvement in the program.
Israel Aerospace Industries was ordered to pay Spacecom $10,000,000 for late delivery of the Amos-6 satellite.
Spacecom terminated its contract with Space Systems Loral six months after ordering Amos-8 following domestic criticism that selecting an overseas contractor jeopardized Israel Aerospace Industries’ ability to remain in the telecom satellite manufacturing business.
Spacecom’s March 2019 decision to buy Amos-8 from a U.S. company instead of Israel Aerospace Industries sparked concern that Israel might lose its ability to produce telecommunications satellites domestically.
The Israeli government told Spacecom in late April 2019 that it intended to order a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries and place it in the same geosynchronous orbit as most of Spacecom’s fleet.
Effective Space and Israel Aerospace Industries reached an agreement on 2018-09-11 for IAI to provide technical and financial support to Effective Space.
Israel Aerospace Industries seeks to expand its portfolio of small satellites and to invest in satellite services.
One of SSL’s 2018 orders was not fully finalized after Spacecom delayed its downpayment on the $112,000,000 Amos-8 satellite following news that the Israeli government may procure a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries to co-locate with Spacecom’s fleet at 4 degrees West.
Spacecom received a letter from the Israeli government stating that a group of agencies might procure a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries and place it in geosynchronous orbit at 4 degrees west.