ASRI Asher Space Research Institute

A different aspect of Israel Space Week: As part of the week's activities, Dr. Alex Frid represented ASRI in a volunteering in the community project, helping a student preparing for the Astronomical Photo Decoding Competition at the Kinneret Observatory: https://www.aastro.net/space-32/
The student, Lenny Koren, from Habonim elementary school in Haifa, won 1st place in the competition. Congratulations Lenny, we're proud of you!

Last Tuesday ASRI hosted the Head of Space Campus IL Community, Rakia Mission, Yuval Malul, for a visit. In a tour led Dr. Alex Frid and Saar Levi - from fundamental space research to applied works she was introduced to some of the many cutting-edge projects the institute is doing.

ASRI is proud to announce that Revital Frenkel and Yahli Druker, Master students under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Vitaly Shaferman have reached the finals in the upcoming Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Graduate Student Paper Competition at the AIAA SciTech Forum, to be held in Orlando, Florida, in Jan. 2026.
The title of Revital’s paper is “Optimal 3D Soft Landing Guidance with Approach Angle Path Constraints”, and the title of Yahli’s paper is “Low-Thrust Orbital Linear-Quadratic Differential Games with Terminal Speed Constraints”.
ASRI would like to congratulate them both, and wish them success in this prestigious competition.

Starting January 1, 2025, Prof. Yoav Schechner from the department of Electrical Engineering is replacing Prof. Yoram Rozen as ASRI’s director.
Prof. Rozen served as director for the past 4 years, leading the ASRI team and the Institute according to its vision:
“A world-class research institute, committed to excellence in the art and practice of space technology and space science”.
We welcome Prof. Schechner and wish him the best of luck, and look forward to fruitful and successful work endeavours together in the future!