Besides my passion for investigating the mysteries of the universe, I also like to build stuff. As part of my affiliation with the Nanosatellite and space engineering center at Tel-Aviv university (TAU), I could fulfill my needs and design stuff to explore as the center’s chief system engineer and integrator. I was part of the team that built TAU’s first satellite - TAUSAT-1, and tested it before its successful launch on February 2021.

Here is a picture of myself in TAU’s clean room during the satellite development phase:

You can read about TAUSAT-1 in this link.

In other projects, I also developed the COTS-Capsule, an innovative space mechanism for detecting and mitigating cosmic-rays induced damage to space systems.

We are assembling a new optical ground station at TAU to be used for advanced optical communication with satellites. As part of this initiative, we developed TAUSAT-2, which among other payloads, includes a dedicated LED payload that we aim to observe from the ground.