China's satellite constellation launch highlights Beijing’s advancements in space exploration and aerospace engineering.
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Saudi Arabia’s real purpose behind its recent milestones in the space sector demonstrates its commitment to diversifying its economy.
Relativity Space could revolutionise space travel with 3D printing. Relativity Space launched its Terran 1, an entirely 3D-printed rocket, from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida last Wednesday night. Standing at 110 ft. tall and 7.5 ft. wide, Terran 1 is the largest 3D-printed object to attempt orbital flight. As a two-stage, expendable rocket, […]
Relativity Space could revolutionise space travel with 3D printing. Relativity Space launched its Terran 1, an entirely 3D-printed rocket, from Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida last Wednesday night. Standing at 110 ft. tall and 7.5 ft. wide, Terran 1 is the largest 3D-printed object to attempt orbital flight. As a two-stage, expendable rocket, […]
NASA on Tuesday said it had picked U.S. rocket builder Firefly Aerospace to put a lander on the moon’s far side in 2026, under a nearly $112 million contract. “The commercial lander will deliver two agency payloads, as well as communication and data relay satellite for lunar orbit, which is an ESA (European Space Agency) […]
On Tuesday, March 7, the Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, held a live video call on NASA TV with the Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, commending him on the safe trip at the International Space Station (ISS). Al Neyadi, currently based in the ISS for the upcoming six months, […]
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) latest space venture of its Emirati astronaut program is a graspable showcase of the Emirates’ space agency’s aptitude for greatness. The UAE’s space agency, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), is drawing the map of the future for its rising generations by investing heavily in space exploration and technology. In […]
China has a “stunning lead” in 37 out of 44 critical and emerging technologies as Western democracies lose a global competition for research output, a security think tank said on Thursday after tracking defence, space, energy and biotechnology. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said its study showed that, in some fields, all of the […]
Zephyr Goes to Market You’d think the development of an unmanned, solar powered drone capable of flying 21 kilometers above the Earth would be a hush-hush military project. You know the kind. Dreamt up and developed by ‘those freewheeling zealots’ a hundred meters below the Pentagon at Darpa and Skunkworks. Remember them? They invented the […]
As humanity approaches a new space exploration stage and is getting ready to send human-crewed flights to Mars using the Moon as an intermediary base, many people glance back to the 20th-Century space race, trying to evaluate our previous advances in this area. As to who put the first man-made object in space question, most […]