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Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft didn’t quite succeed in its moon mission, but that isn’t stopping Israelis from continuing to send new technology up into space.

Other than an unfortunate crash landing, the biggest obstacle to space travel is power. Fortunately, there’s plenty of that from the sun. The challenge is how to capture solar energy efficiently and cheaply.

The AstroRad, an Israeli antiradiation vest for outer space developed by the US-Israeli startup StemRad, is set to be launched onto the International Space Station (ISS) along with an assortment of science-related supplies this weekend.

The Tel Aviv-based company in collaboration with the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) at the Ministry of Science and Technology said that a prototype of the vest would be launched on Saturday, November 2nd at 9:59 am EST time (3:59 am Israeli time.)

AstroRad is a vest designed to shield people during deep-space travel

[ad_1] Gideon Waterman, CTO at Stemrad, shows a new prototype of AstroRad, a protective vest for deep-space travel. Amir Cohen/Reuters HAIFA, Israel — A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission and ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said. The AstroRad Radiation Shield has been devised…