The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) will host the United Nations/United Arab Emirates High Level Forum: “Space as a Driver for Socio-Economic Sustainable Development,” which will be jointly organised by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, held from November …
Read More »#SpaceWatchME Interviews: Simonetta di Pippo of UNOOSA About the High Level Forum Dubai 2017
Prior to this year’s High Level Forum in Dubai, SpaceWatch Middle East spoke with Simonetta di Pippo, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), about this year’s HLF forecast. We are heading towards the 2017 High Level Forum (HLF) in Dubai. Last year the Dubai Declaration …
Read More »Saudi Arabia and Virgin Announce Partnership on Spaceflight, Satellite Launch, and Space-Centric Entertainment Industry
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia and Virgin Group (Virgin), have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a partnership under which PIF intends to invest approximately $1 billion into Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit, with an option for $480 million of future additional …
Read More »UAE Teachers Invited By Honeywell To Apply For U.S. Space Camp
Honeywell, a global software-industrial company, following the successful trip of UAE teachers last year, is inviting eligible teachers to join educators from around the world at the prestigious Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA). The programme will be held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC), in Huntsville, Alabama; …
Read More »#SpaceWatchME Op’Ed: Tristram Cary of GeoXphere: Taking a Different Perspective
Over the last 30 years Earth Observation data (both from satellites and from aircraft) has had a fast-growing impact across a very wide range of industries from agriculture to tourism, and from peace-keeping to meteorology. The rate of development today is as fast as it has ever been, but not …
Read More »UAE Space Agency Welcomes Kuwaiti Delegation
The UAE Space Agency welcomed an official delegation from Kuwaiti scientific, research, and academic institutions visiting the UAE this week to learn about the experience, achievements and future plans of the UAE space sector. The delegation included representatives from Kuwait University, Kuwait Advanced Technology Foundation, and Kuwait Institute for Scientific …
Read More »Angola’s AngoSat-1 To Be Launched By Russia in December 2017
Angola’s first communications satellite, AngoSat-1, will be launched into geostationary orbit on December 7, 2017, according a spokesman for the Russia Space Corporation Energia (RKK Energiya). The launcher to be used will be a Zenit carrier rocket built in Ukraine, and the launch itself shall be from the Baikonur Cosmodrome …
Read More »Turkish Space Agency To Be Established This Legislative Year; Manned Spaceflight An Objective
According to Ahmet Arslan, the Turkish Minister for Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications, the eagerly anticipated Turkish space agency will be established this legislative year. Quoted in Turkish newspaper The Daily Sabah, Arslan justified the need for a Turkish space agency when he said, “As we have seen, the fact …
Read More »Ethiopia and India Raise Prospect of Space Cooperation
Ethiopia and India have raised the possibility of space cooperation with each other after a state visit to the Horn of Africa country by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on October 5-7, 2017. The Ethiopian government announced in early 2017 that it intends to build its own medium-sized space launch …
Read More »#SpaceWatchME Op’Ed: Private Companies Are Launching A Space Race – Here’s What To Expect
International competition in space has been a permanent feature of humankind’s forays into Earth orbit and beyond ever since the launch of Sputnik by the former Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. During the Cold War the competition was between super powers. Today the competition is between at least 60 countries and …
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