UAE-based venture, Orbitworks, will manufacture up to 50 satellites annually to push domestic production capabilities for the UAE satellite.
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Classified intelligence reveals Russia’s ongoing efforts to develop and deploy space-based nuclear weapons, which are threats to the peace in space.
Almost every day, headline-hogger Elon Musk manages to fill our screens with news that excites, sickens, surprises, revolts, frightens, amuses, angers, etc. Name any particular emotion, and Musk evokes a daily dose of it, and the opposite. On this particular day, we offer up a fact a lot of people know. But how many have […]
UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, along with three others, successfully concluded their historic mission on the International Space Station.
Japan’s new medium-lift rocket failed on its debut flight in space on Tuesday after the launcher’s second-stage engine did not ignite as planned, in a blow to its efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The 57-metre (187 ft) tall H3 rocket, Japan’s first new model in three […]
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule […]
Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country’s longest crewed space mission to date. The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China’s first space station. While in orbit, the Shenzhou-13 mission astronauts took manual control in the Tianhe living […]
A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:17 a.m. and arced southward over the Pacific Ocean. The Falcon’s first stage flew back to […]
The power of innovative defense technologies with the UK's new spy satellite, Tyche. Discover how it will enhance military operations.
A European study found that data centers could be built in space to solve their energy consumption issues.