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Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years.

Can private companies carry NASA back to the Moon? The failure of recent missions highlights the challenges of relying on private entities to spearhead the US’s lunar ambitions.

"The story of finding water on the moon, but also in different places in the solar system as part of our search for extra-terrestrial life is always exciting", said Ehud Behar, former director of the Norman and Helen ASRI in an interview with CNBC about the race to the moon.

The Asher Space Research Institute at the Technion, in collaboration with the National Centre for Space and Science in the United Arab Emirates and the Imagesat International, is developing a first-of-its-kind technological demonstrator to address the global climate crisis.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently successfully ran AWS compute and machine learning services on an orbiting satellite in a first-of-its kind space experiment. Prof. Pini Gurfil, ASRI member and former ASRI Director, commentated on this experiment in an interview given to the Israeli Space Agency news website, explaining that this experiment is a potential breakthrough in on-orbit computing capabilities.

In microgravity: Technion researchers have produced liquid lenses. The lab team of Prof. Moran Berkowitz participated in an experiment on a NASA airplane.

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Technion and IAI develop a unique nano-satellite receiver for distress signals. The satellites will be used to receive signals from Earth and to calculate the location of the transmission source for rescue purposes.