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China National Space Administration said the International Lunar Research Station would be open to use by other countries, but gave no timeline for its construction

Date Time Dstl exchange officer inducted into United States Space Force Captain Jake Singteton, a United States Air Force officer on secondment with the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), has been inducted into the United States Space Force (USSF). Captain Singleton attested his Oath of Office in a “virtual” ceremony attended by Air Vice Marshal Harv Smyth (UK Director Space), Col Charles Metrolis (Air Attaché, US Embassy, London), military and civilian colleagues and...

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EPI seals Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre partnership DUBAI, February 16, 2021 EPI, the precision engineering backbone of the UAE’s aerospace and defence industry, has  joined forces with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), home to the UAE National Space Programme, to manufacture key components for its new satellite project MBZ-SAT.   The six-month-long project will see EPI producing 147 machined parts for MBRSC in addition to carrying out surface treatment and inspection serv...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinas space agency released two videos providing a close-up glimpse of Mars on Friday, captured as its Tianwen-1 probe entered the red planets orbit, saying the spacecraft was sending a Lunar New Year greeting to Earth. After a 6-1/2 month journey through space, the Tianwen-1 on Wednesday slowed to a speed at which it could be captured by the pull of Mars gravity and became the second spacecraft to reach the planet this month, with a U.S. probe set to arrive and immediately ...

See you in Mars, China and USA. Hope Probe is now in Mars orbit and waiting for China’s Tianwen-1 dual orbiter-rover to arrive in Mars on Wedensday (February 10, 2021), while NASA’s Perseverance rover will make a landing attempt in an area on Mars on February 18. All three Mars missions were launched in July last year. The Hope Probe has travelled over 435 million kilometres to Mars after liftoff from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre in July 2020. The Hope Probe has travelled over 435 m...

Dubai: While famous landmarks across the UAE — from Burj Khalifa to Burj Al Arab, Emirates Palace, House of Wisdom, National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah, and more — have lit up in red, a Filipino artist has created a massive sand art to celebrate the historic arrival of Hope Probe on Mars on Tuesday (February 9). Using only a garden rake, Nathaniel Alapide, 43, turned the beachfront of Rixos Premium Dubai JBR as his canvas to create a 30x40-metre sand art. He sketched Hope Probe with its outst...

Kyzzhibek Batyrkanova, 26, is the director of the Kyrgyz Space Program. She is also a TechWomen 2019 alumna, hosted by Mozilla HQ in San Francisco Bay Area, and founder of the TechCamp project, implemented in partnership with the UN Women Country Office in Kyrgyzstan.

UAE is now only the fifth country or entity in the world to reach the Red Planet

Space missions are no longer just for governmental agencies that follow the rules of the administration. How can private sector companies be brought under the umbrella of space protection laws?