According to the report, the Israeli Space Agency invested 15 million dollars in the construction of the telescope that will be launched on top of an Indian rocket. Designed to map new galaxies
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Israel intends to send a telescope into space on an Indian rocket in 2005, as part of expanding cooperation between the two countries, the "Indian Express" in India reported today. This is the space telescope that has been developed for several years at Tel Aviv University and is known as TAUVEX. The telescope was supposed to be launched as a companion payload to a Russian rocket but the Russians canceled it due to the lack of sufficient funding to launch the original payload of that rocket.
The report stated that the Israeli Space Agency has so far spent 15 million dollars on the construction of the telescope, which is designed to map new galaxies. The newspaper quoted Israeli officials as saying that Israel intends to send the telescope into space on a rocket that India will send into space by the end of 2005. The information from the telescope will be for scientific purposes only, and both countries will use it.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said during his visit to India earlier this month that Israel decided to send the telescope into space on an Indian rocket. The details of the telescope launch were agreed a few months ago during the visit to Israel of the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
The cooperation between Israel and India on the issue of space began about two and a half years ago with a meeting between scientists from the two countries in Austria, and was expanded by an agreement signed in India in October 2002. Israel and India apparently also agreed on a deal in the amount of one billion dollars for the sale of radar systems from the Israeli Air Force to India. From Sharon in India, the countries signed six agreements to strengthen ties in education, health, culture, technology and the environment.
The Israeli telescope was built in 1993 as part of an international project to launch a large number of telescopes on a Russian satellite. The satellite, weighing 6.5 tons, was supposed to be launched in 1995. In total, about 15 million dollars were invested in the construction of the telescope.
Financial problems at the Russian space agency caused repeated postponements of the launch until in 2000 the European Space Agency rejected a request from the Russians to help it build its satellite, which caused the project to be dismantled. The Israel Space Agency has begun searching for an alternative collaborative project to launch the telescope into space.
The head of the Indian Space Agency visited Israel about a month ago, and during his visit we also discussed the cooperation regarding the launch of the telescope. During his visit to India about two weeks ago, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated the Israeli government's intention to support the project. Har-Evan clarifies that the Ministry of Science, which is responsible for the Israeli Space Agency, has not yet received the promised budget that would enable the adaptation of the telescope, which is stored in the Alup company's warehouses, to the Indian satellite, as well as the replacement of some systems that have become obsolete over the years.
An ultraviolet telescope is built like a normal telescope from an array of mirrors, but these are coated with a special material that reflects the ultraviolet rays.
Using this type of telescope it is possible to locate, among other things, gas clouds and young stars that emit ultraviolet radiation.
Milestones in the development of the telescope
*1993 The Israeli company Alup begins building the telescope.
. *1995 The planned launch of the Russian satellite that was supposed to carry the telescope was cancelled.
. *2000 The European Space Agency rejects the Russians' request to support the project.
. *2001 First meeting between representatives of the Israeli Space Agency and the Indian Agency
*August 2003 The head of the Indian Space Agency arrives in Israel
*September 2003, the Prime Minister announces that the government has budgeted a special amount of money for the launch of the telescope
Yidan Israel in space
They knew space operations outside the US
The tauvex telescope site
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