https://spacewatch.global/tag/lebanon/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:44:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/lebanon/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/pan-arab-group-for-space-collaboration-founded-in-abu-dhabi/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 06:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13150 Under the patronage and presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the second edition of the Global Space Congress commenced on 19 March 2019 in Abu Dhabi.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/israels-iai-developing-nanosatellite-constellation-for-persistent-overhead-reconnaissance/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10731 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is developing a large constellation of Earth observation nanosatellites to provide persistent overhead reconnaissance and ballistic missile early warning over countries and areas of concern to Israeli national security, as a supplement to Israel’s existing satellite reconnaissance capabilities and U.S. ballistic missile early warning satellites.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/07/irans-leafminer-is-tehrans-latest-proxy-hacking-group-with-ambitious-espionage-agenda/ Tue, 31 Jul 2018 05:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9657 U.S. cyber security company Symantec has revealed the existence of a new Iranian proxy hacking group they have named ‘Leafminer’ and that have been operating since early 2017. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/06/pan-arab-space-organisation-gathering-support-pace-uae-leadership/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 05:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8968 Diplomatic efforts are gathering in the Middle East and North Africa toward the development of a regional mechanism for space cooperation and development among Arab countries. At the recent Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi, the region made progress toward establishing an Arab space organisation.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/senior-uae-economist-urges-arab-world-join-bri-space-silk-road/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8371 Dr. Nasser Saidi, one of the Middle East's preeminent economists and a former government minister for economics and finance in Lebanon, has said that Arab countries should embrace China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to include participation in and contributions to China's Tiangong space station as well as the Space and Digital Silk Roads.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/02/satellites-mediterranean-spacex-successfully-launches-spains-paz-reconnaissance-satellite/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7637 SpaceX successfully launched Spain’s high-resolution synthetic aperture radar  (SAR) PAZ reconnaissance satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Thursday, 22 February, 2018. The successful launch of PAZ is the latest by a Mediterranean country and intensifies the space-based surveillance and reconnaissance competition of the geopolitically important sea. The launch, which included two other […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/10/saudi-arabia-russia-deepen-space-cooperation-agree-joint-space-exploration-projects/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:00:59 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5906 H.M.King Salman of Saudi Arabia signed an agreement with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday, October 5, 2017, committing both countries to space exploration cooperation. The agreement was one of many signed between the two leaders as King Salman made a state visit to Russia on October 4-6, 2017. This space exploration agreement is […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/08/swmethemes-chinas-space-silk-road-middle-east-part-one/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 07:45:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5443 Centuries ago, China and Europe were connected by a number of trade routes across the Eurasian landmass and the Indian Ocean that were later known as the Silk Road. These Silk Roads not only connected the ancient Chinese Middle Kingdom and Medieval Europe, but also connected regions of Eurasia that are today known as Central […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/07/swmethemes-space-resources-international-space-law-skeptical-view/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5125 The third part of our #SWMEThemes on the Middle East and Space Resources is an interview with space law attorney Michael J. Listner of Space Law and Policy Solutions, and author and publisher of space law and policy briefing-letter The Précis. Michael – a friend of SpaceWatch Middle East –provides readers with a learned yet skeptical view […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/05/analyst-irans-cyber-warfare-capabilities-concern-hardly-sophisticated-dangerous/ Thu, 18 May 2017 08:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4478 A prominent U.S. cyber warfare expert has admonished other cyber security experts for exaggerating the danger posed by Iran’s cyber warfare and espionage organisations and entities. Dr. Brandon Valeriano, a Reader at Cardiff University in Wales and author of Cyber War versus Cyber Realities published by Oxford University Press in 2015, told the U.S. Senate’s […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/12/lebanese-judge-orders-arabsat-put-hezbollahs-al-manar-tv-back-air/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:00:42 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=2448 https://spacewatch.global/2016/05/indias-irnss-gives-middle-east-new-satnav-option/ Tue, 03 May 2016 07:00:11 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=418 The successful launch on 28 April 2016 of the seventh satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) means that the Middle East region will soon have a supplementary, or even alternative, satellite navigation saystem to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia’s GLONASS, and Europe’s Galileo. The satellite, IRNSS-1G, was launched early afternoon […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/04/social-media-app-telegram-deletes-yemens-houthi-backed-al-masirah-tv/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:00:13 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=364 The social media app and website Telegram has deleted the channel used by Yemen’s Al-Masirah satellite television station, an entity thought to be affiliated with the Houthi’s, who are fighting the Saudi Arabian-backed coalition in Yemen. The action by Telegram took place over the weekend of 16-17 April 2016, and to date the company has […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/04/beautiful-picture-middle-east-taken-iss/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:00:20 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=341 There are no borders seen from space…that such beauty can be discerned from a part of the world – the Cradle of Civilization – where so much tragedy and suffering occurs is perhaps the cruelest of ironies. From space the political unrest in Egypt, the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, the gut-wrenching […]]]>