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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.

Technion projects are to be tested onboard the International Space Station, as part of the Ramon Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology’s “Rakia Mission”.

On November 3rd, 2021, two analogue astronauts, Dr. Gernot Grömer, director of Austrian Space Forum, and Mr. Alon Tenzer, gave a engaging talk about the 'Back from Mars - AMADEE20' project, that was held in the Negev desert in Israel.

On Monday, March 22nd 2021, the Adelis-SAMSON satellites were successfully launched aboard a Glavkosmos missile from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Some photos from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

The Adelis-SAMSON satellites were sent today to Ben-Gurion Airport, en route to the Netherlands, where the company ISILaunch will integrate the satellites with the deployers. From the Netherlands, the satellites will be shipped to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, for launch.

Starting January 1, 2021, Prof. Yoram Rozen from the Physics Department is replacing Prof. Pini Gurfil as ASRI's director.

The Adelis-SAMSON satellites are nearing launch.