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The Israeli government has signed an agreement with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, for cooperation in space for peaceful purposes. Areas where the two countries may work together are exploration and research, remote sensing of Earth from space, materials science, space biology and medicine, satellite navigation technology, and launch services. Israel also has similar agreements with NASA and the ESA.
The two countries have already been cooperating extensively in development of high-tech hardware, and Russia has purchased Israeli-made unmanned drones for its security services.
One of the goals of the Israeli Space Agency is to promote innovative scientific projects based on international collaboration.
“The trend of international cooperation and unification of forces for action in space is more and more dominant and there are now several major multinational projects like the space station, handling problems and global warming climate research, spacecraft operation… physics and solar system exploration,” said Dr. Zvi Kaplan, head of the Israeli Space Agency. “We thank all of the organizations that were active in achieving the agreement, including the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice.”
Those present at the signing included Kaplan, Anatoly Perminov, head of Roscosmos, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Science and Technology Professor Daniel Hershkowitz, Russian Ambassador to Israel, Peter Stganye, and experts from both countries in space.
According to the Israeli science news website Hayadan, Netanyahu said that the combination of Russia’s most developed industrial and Israel’s sophisticated technology will provide for improvements and changes for both countries in space.
“The road was indeed was short, but the desire to work together existed, and last year the two sides accelerated the pace, because of the desire to get started,” said Menachem Grinblum, Director General, Ministry of Science and Technology. “We expect the agreement will be translated into joint action research institutions and industries in both countries.”
Source: Hayadan, with special thanks to editor Avi Blizovsky.
Correction: “He posted my comments” (not “by”)
Also the linked site that has caused me much grieve is “Israel Launches Spy Satellite” All comments that were there have since been removed as of a day ago. (Probably so I can’t complain about it.) Deliberate. You bet!
Oh. All the comments I wrote can be read in the older UT story I first linked above.
Wow. i know i saw some comments for this article last night but didn’t have a chance to read them. wonder what that was all about…
I wrote the three comments that are now it seems “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Basically I wrote;
“Israel is finally listening to many complaints from the international community after its recent spy satellite launch on 21st June 2010.” I also said; “Israel here cooperation with other space agencies should be praised and encouraged.” but forewarned that should not support such cooperation for military purposes.
UT seem sensitive to political content, even though this is already somewhat a political story. I have strong views on this subject. Perhaps I went too far??
Cheers.
Amazing. After all the craziness that has been here, now we know where the line is drawn. Anaconda got it so we had to register for comments. And now you have gone so far as to cause censorship. Can’t imagine what that took. These are sensitive times we live in.
I LOVE UNIVERSE TODAY!!! This is the greatest site!
Don’t read too much into this. Topic that border on politics and religion are often difficult subjects to discuss as they easily can offend. (See previous UT story; http://www.universetoday.com/67024/israel-launches-spy-satellite )
Moderators sometimes have difficult choices from readers of their articles. Sometimes they have to act. I told the truth. In my mind, that’s all that matters. I suggest we all just move on to far more interesting topics.
Cheers.