Prelaunch preparations are underway to ready KhalifaSat for launch into orbit before the end of the year from a launch facility in Japan aboard a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-IIA satellite launch vehicle, according to the Director-General of the UAE Space Agency.
Read More »Australia’s Gilmour Space Appoints Top U.S. Space Experts To Advisory Board
Gilmour Space, the Australian and Singaporean New Space launch company, has announced the appointment of two space veterans, Pamela Melroy, a former NASA astronaut, and Dava Newman, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, to its advisory board, as it prepares to enter the global small launch market in 2020.
Read More »Israel’s Gilat Selected By Australia’s Telstra To Provide Satellite Backhaul Solution In Rural Areas
Israel’s Gilat has been selected by Australian telecommunications giant Telstra to provide its satellite backhaul solutions in order to provide 4G mobile telephone coverage in some of Australia’s most isolated and rural areas.
Read More »SpaceWatch.Global To Begin Cyber, EW, and AI Coverage Next Week
Starting on Monday, 30 July 2018, SpaceWatch.Global will begin providing news coverage, analysis, interviews, and opinions on cyber security and warfare, electronic warfare, and Artificial Intelligence in Africa, Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Read More »Facebook Building LEO Broadband Satellite To Bridge Digital Divide In Africa
Social media giant Facebook has confirmed that one of its subsidiaries, PointView Tech LLC, is building a satellite dubbed Athena that will be placed in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and provide Gigabite-quantity Internet services in digitally deprived areas such as Africa.
Read More »Azerbaijan’s Azercosmos And CNES Sign Space Cooperation Agreement
Azercosmos, the national space agency of Azerbaijan, and the French space agency, the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), have signed a space cooperation agreement which focuses specifically on collaboration in Earth observation.
Read More »UAE Space Agency Signs Agreement With NASA For Human Spaceflight Assistance
The UAE Space Agency has signed an agreement with the U.S. space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to cooperate in the peaceful uses of outer space and with the new UAE Astronaut Programme.
Read More »South Korea and France Discuss Space Cooperation, Space Climate Observatory
The French national space agency, the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), and the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), met earlier in July 2018 to discuss working together within the framework of the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) and bilateral space cooperation in space launch and the development of Korean positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellites.
Read More »Thailand’s mu Space Lofts Payload On Blue Origin’s New Shepard Test Launch
Thailand’s mu Space contributed part of the payload lofted by Blue Origin’s New Shepard Reusable Launch Vehicle in a successful test of the launch vehicle last week in the U.S. The six-kilogram payload, sent by mu Space, included experiments and technologies provided by mu Space as well as by Thai universities and space agencies.
Read More »India’s ISRO Opens Up To Private Industry For Substantial Satellite Manufacturing
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed contracts with three Indian companies for the manufacture of up to 27 satellites over the next three years, marking a change of direction for the ISRO in allowing Indian private industry to build space systems, rather than building them in-house.
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