{"id":264012,"date":"2026-01-29T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:28:16","slug":"israels-space-program-is-falling-behind-just-as-the-global-space-race-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264012\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Space Program Is Falling Behind \u2013 Just as the Global Space Race Accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh xb3r6kr x103ahzr\">In the late 1980s, when Israel wasn&#8217;t yet 50 years old, it became the eighth country in history to launch a satellite into outer space. Defense needs drove the goal to breach the atmosphere, but the civilian potential quickly became apparent, and Israel turned itself into a powerhouse that has operated more than 50 satellites to date, for uses ranging from photoreconnaissance to missile defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the late 1980s, when Israel wasn&#8217;t yet 50 years old, it became the eighth country in history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[350,85,46,2648,74230,954,141,1896,145],"class_list":["post-264012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-elon-musk","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-economy","tag-israel-technology","tag-israeli-politics","tag-science","tag-science-technology","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}