Israeli Scientists Develop World’s First Formation Flying Nano Satellites

Three nano-satellites developed by scientists at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, will be the world’s first to be flown in formation.

The project, developed with the collaboration of the French Adelis-Samson Foundation and the Israeli Space Agency (ISA), will be launched on the Indian launcher PSLV at the end of 2018 by the Dutch company Innovative Solutions In Space, which has a specialization in launching Nano-satellites.

The project has been developed by a team of researchers lead by Prof. Pini Gurfil, who is the head of the Asher Institute for Space Research and a member of the aerospace engineering faculty at the Technion. It has been designed to demonstrate that a combination of satellites can hold together in a controlled formation for a year some 600 kilometers above Earth.#Africa ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie