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Jerusalem: An Israeli developed prototype solar-power generator will be sent by the US space agency NASA to the International Space Station, Ben Gurion University (BGU) in southern Israel announced on Monday.The new generator offers a major step forward for private commercial space missions, as the private space market is a rapidly growing billion-dollar industry with dozens of corporate players, according to the university. The new generator was developed at BGU by Jeffrey Gordon and his US. colleagues. Its design and experimental verification were published in the journal Optics Express.The generator is set to be sent to the ISS with NASA's first…