(Flightglobal) Gayle Putrich - NASA and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) recently signed a formal cooperation pact. NASA is particularly interested in Israeli expertise in producing lightweight satellites that can be launched from aircraft. Israeli instrumentation, such as hyperspectral sensors and satellite antennas for analyzing photographs via radar, will be key to mapping Venus. NASA and the ISA also intend to work bilaterally on space geodesy - the measurement from space of Earth's gravitational field, tides, and the movement of its poles and crust - and expand use of the International Space Station for Israeli research and educational experiments.
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