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Dr. Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble space telescope. With the completion of his fifth space flight, he has logged more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space. Dr. Hoffman was NASA's second Jewish astronaut and the second Jewish man in space (after Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov), and on his 5th and last flight, he took with him a small Torah scroll, and read from the book of Genesis during the flight. Dr. Hoffman came to the Technion and gave an interesting talk at the visitors' centre about the work being done on Mars                 After the lecture Dr. Hoffman came to visit ASRI, where he was met by ASRI's Director, Prof. Yoram Rozen, and toured ASRI's different labs. Then signed the branded envelopes made especially of the occasion.    

Prof. Pini Gurfil, ASRI member and former ASRI Director, wins October 2022 ISF Grant to study a new method to control satellite orbits using low-thrust propulsion. The new method, termed “Resonant Orbit Control”, attempts to modify satellite thrust in a certain periodic pattern, so as to achieve better fuel efficiency for long-term operation.

The Aerospace faculty is renovating its Control Laboratory, and in the meantime its people are being hosted in the ASRI building for the next few months. We wish them all a nice and productive stay with us, and hope that their lab will be all done and ready on time and as planned!

On June 12th, 2022, ASRI had a visit from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil.

On May 10th, 2022, the Ambassador of Italy to the State of Israel visited ASRI.

ASRI member Prof. Joseph Lefkowitz from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering is one of this year's Asher Grant recipients, for his research about Low-power Hall thruster Diagnostics using Optical Emission Spectroscopy.

ASRI member Prof. Yaron Amouyal from the Department of Materials Engineering is one of this year's Asher Grant recipients, for his research on Thermoelectric materials.

ASRI member, Prof. Adi Nusser from the Physics Department is one of this year's Asher Grant recipients, for his research: Constrained realizations of 2MRS density and peculiar velocity fields: growth rate and local flow.

ASRI member Prof. Noam Soker from the Physics Department is one of this year's Asher Grant recipients, for his research 'Jet-powering of bumps in the light curves of erupting stars'.

A team led by Prof. Shlomit Tarem and Prof. Ehud Behar from the Physics department has developed an experiment that will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) along with other experiments planned and built at the Technion.