Pre SSP15

Vera Gutman
Jun 4, 2015
2 min read

With a two weeks of notice we all started to get ready for one of the most exciting summer of our life - The 28th Summer Space Studies Program (SSP15) of International Space University (ISU)’ This considered the world’s premier international space education institution. And this year will be held at Ohio University at Athens, Ohio US.

So at this summer we will get to meet more than 110 participants from 30 countries — and 150 more faculty members. Those new friends among others are engineers, scientists, and legal and medical professionals from government and space agencies, academia and aerospace companies.

In those intense nine-week together we will get to do some fun staff such as participate in robotic contest, launching a rocket and party at a space costume party AND a trip to NASA! Of course, the program also includes the traditional academic aspect and design to help the participants in their professional development the highlighted disciplines include space physical sciences; space engineering; space policy, economics and law; space management and business; space and the humanities; space applications and human performance in space.

Our preparation included a virtual meeting on Skype with all the seven of the Israeli SSP15 with some of the Israeli SSP alumni who gave us a mental preparation and tips from there on SSP experience. Next we all got together in a meeting held at the Israeli Space Agency headquarters

there we got the professional briefs from the agency representatives some giveaways…

Five out the seven Israeli SSP15 members at the Israeli Space Agency headquarters meeting

The Israeli team members: Naama Glauber – Naama holds a B.Sc. in Computer Since from the Jerusalem Collage of technology which she studied during her school years (!). In addition, Naama is a physics degree in the Open University. She is currently preforming a national service in the ministry of Defense, Directory Defense, Research and Development (DDRND). As part of the space program Naama works at the Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) as software and algorithm engineer of Mission Planning System for LEO satellites.

Roy Naor- Roy holds a B.Sc. in Archeology from Weitzman Institute of Science. Roy currently conducting research to Characterized formation environments of minerals on Mars with the aim of explaining the mechanism and conditions of present and future findings from Mars rover and space craft.

Danielle Potcher – Danielle is a System Engineer in MBT space division of the Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI). Danielle holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University

Oshri Rozenheck- Oshri holds a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion Institute and now days is finishing his Master’s in Autonomous System Programing also at the Technion where he is also does research on how to control a formation of multi agents system (robots, aircrafts and even satellites).

Doron Shterman- Doron holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Technion Institute as a member of the EE faculty excellence program.

And me, you all know me… ;)