Interview conducted by Australia In Space TV
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Israel strengthened its position as a key player in the global space industry at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held last week in Milan, with a series of new partnerships signed by Rakia – Israel’s Space Mission, including with space missions from Hungary, and soon with Poland.
We speak with Prof Dan Blumberg, Chair of the Israel Space Agency.
Blumberg completed five years as Vice President and Dean for Research and Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Before that he fulfilled several positions including Deputy Vice President, Chairperson of the Department of Geography and Environmental Development at BGU, and the founder of the Green Campus initiative at BGU which gained the University an international ranking of #18.
Prof Blumberg earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University (1993) where he studied and worked in the Planetary Geology Group and focused on aeolian processes and microwave radar remote sensing to study arid zone environments and planetary geology. Blumberg was a Co-I on the SRL (Spaceborne Radar Laboratory) mission, SRTM (Spaceborne Radar Topography) mission and other space missions. Blumberg has been working for the past 20 years on analysis of multi-parameter remote sensing data including radar, hyperspectral, multi-spectral and GPR data. He has also published numerous papers in the areas of target and anomaly detection. Blumberg combined field studies with the use of remote sensing data. Blumberg led the development and successful launch on February 15, 2017 of a Nanosatellite, BGUsat.
Blumberg has been a key leader in the development of the cyber eco-system in Beer-Sheva which brought 39 multi-national companies and 70 startups to the advanced technologies park in Beer-Sheva.
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