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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

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Firefly Aerospace signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries in July 2019 to use Beresheet lander technology for its Genesis lunar lander.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralMay 13, 2020OHB and IAI plan commercial lunar lander mission in late 2022

Israel Aerospace Industries built the Beresheet lander that attempted to land on the moon in April 2019.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralApr 22, 2020Firefly signs launch agreement with Spaceflight

BGUSAT is a 3U imaging cubesat built by Israel Aerospace Industries with Ben Gurion University that launched in 2017 on an Indian PSLV rocket.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralFeb 11, 2020IAI anticipates additional satellite orders from Israeli government

Israel Aerospace Industries specializes in building optical and synthetic aperture radar satellites weighing around 300 to 400 kg.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipFeb 11, 2020IAI anticipates additional satellite orders from Israeli government

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.

Mentioned as: israel aerospace industriesTechnical ProductFeb 11, 2020IAI anticipates additional satellite orders from Israeli government

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).

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralFeb 11, 2020IAI anticipates additional satellite orders from Israeli government

Israel Aerospace Industries built the Italian Ministry of Defence’s Optsat-3000 satellite.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralFeb 11, 2020IAI anticipates additional satellite orders from Israeli government

Israel Aerospace Industries builds remote-sensing satellites but has not gained significant traction with commercial telecommunications satellite operators.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

IAI lost a 2018 competition to SSL (now Maxar Technologies) to build the Amos-8 satellite.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

In 2018, Israel Aerospace Industries was ordered to pay Spacecom $10,000,000 for late delivery of the Amos-6 satellite.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Narrative GeneralJan 2, 2020IAI to build communications satellite for Israel

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace IndustriesOrg RelationshipNov 21, 2019New details emerge about failed lunar landings

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipSep 23, 2019Argentina, Turkey wade into tough GEO manufacturing market with joint venture

Israel Aerospace Industries worked with German company OHB to study development of a Beresheet-based lander for European Space Agency missions.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace IndustriesOrg RelationshipJul 9, 2019Firefly to partner with IAI on lunar lander

Firefly Aerospace plans to work with Israel Aerospace Industries to develop lunar landers for NASA.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace IndustriesOrg RelationshipJul 9, 2019Firefly to partner with IAI on lunar lander

Firefly Aerospace announced its partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries on 2019-07-09.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipJul 9, 2019Firefly to partner with IAI on lunar lander

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.

Mentioned as: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)Org RelationshipJul 9, 2019Firefly Aerospace and Israel Aerospace Industries Enter Exclusive Agreement for U.S. Commercialization of Lunar Lander Technology

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.

Mentioned as: israel aerospace industriesOrg RelationshipApr 12, 2019SpaceIL says “chain of events” led to crash of lunar lander
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