ASRI Asher Space Research Institute

02/02/2026

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!

18/01/2026

As part of Israel's Space Week led by ISA and the Rakia Mission, Space Campus IL and ASRI hosted NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, and Rebecca Bresnik, Associate General Counsel for International and Space Law Practice Group Headquarters, for a guided tour of some of the most interesting space-related projects that the Technion has to offer!
Following the tour, the Bresniks, husband and wife, gave a joint lecture to the students of the Aerospace Faculty, offering insights into human spaceflight, international space cooperation, and the intersection between science, law, and society. They also shared some of their personal experiences as a "space-related" family and gave a very rare and interesting peek into their lives. It was a wonderful experience and we are thankful to everyone who helped make this day happen, including Yuval Malul from the Space Campus IL Community, Rakia Mission, and of course our very own Dr. Alex Frid and Saar Levi from the faculty of Aerospace Eng.

24/12/2025

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.

14/09/2025

Congratulations to Hovhannes Agalarian for receiving the Technion Research & Development Foundation’s ‘Outstanding Employee’ award for 2025!
Hovhannes (Hovik) is a brilliant electronics engineer, and a creative and dedicated one at that. He has been with ASRI for a long time, and over the years he contributed greatly to all of ASRI's important activities. He is responsible for the development and integration of the hardware (electronics) and software systems in satellites, and his contribution to the projects is crucial, and relies on professional depth on the one hand, and breadth of horizons and extensive knowledge on the other.
Thank you Hovik, for being such an important part of ASRI, we all hope for many more years of working together!

08/09/2025

Moshe Golani, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Yoram Rozen won the 2025 ‘Gemunder’ prize for space related technologies research for his work: Radiometric Interferometry for Deep Space Navigation Using Geostationary Satellites. Moshe is developing a deep space navigation system with a unique idea of his own. His proposed method has multiple advantages over existing methods and can lead to the realization of ASRI’s CoolEarth project.
Congratulations Moshe!

08/09/2025

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.

20/02/2025

Yesterday ASRI took part in the Aerospace Engineering Faculty’s open day, hosting dozens of high school students who are interested in academic reserve studies of Aerospace Engineering.
Accompanied by Air Force aeroengineers who graduated from the faculty, the students got to see a display of students’ projects, hear about the studies at the faculty as well as the roles of aerospace engineers in the Air Force, and went on guided tours in several of the Faculty’s laboratories as well as ASRI’s Electrical Propulsion Lab and the Distributed Space Systems Lab, where Prof. Pini Gurfil, Dr. Vladimir Martinusi, and ASRI’s engineer Maxim Rubanovych and led them in interesting and knowledgeable tours. It was a great day!

27/01/2025

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!

26/01/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Frid for being chosen as an ‘Outstanding Technion Employee’!
Alex is responsible for most of ASRI’s projects, as well as the integration of the work carried out. He is an excellent and prolific researcher, dedicated and committed to ASRI and all its workers, always available and willing to help and to advise. He is gentle and very pleasant to work with, and everyone at ASRI and outside it knows his door is open to anyone who needs him.
Thank you Alex, for being such an important part of ASRI. We look forward to joint, productive and enjoyable work with you for many years to come!

08/02/2024

ASRI director, Prof. Yoram Rozen, was interviewed by The New York Times about the 'Cool Earth' project. Prof. Rozen explained how Cool Earth can show a space umbrella the size of Argentina is a viable solution for earth’s climate change and rising temperatures, and how ASRI researchers are working towards proving that.
Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/climate/sun-shade-climate-geoengineering.html?fbclid=IwAR15c7Gd-m8WvL-gwYvVMPUvpKY-DfPzTsa6INFecEPyZZaciWuccI1Y1yI

Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years.