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Next for UAEs Mars team: Making space for private sector Saman Haziq/Dubai Wam The success of the UAE’s Mars mission has inspired space dreams and lit the spark in the minds of young Arabs. Now that the UAE has reached the Red Planet, the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is moving towards its next ‘big’ targets. And according to the EMM’s lead scientist and the UAE’s Minister of State for Advanced Technology, the next step is to engage with the private sector in developing the country’s ...

ISRO space opens to private players Bengaluru The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to open up its ‘space’ to the private sector after being a closed government organisation for over 50 years. The first move came when ISRO allowed two satellites developed by private companies to be tested at the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) here. Satellites from Tamil Nadu-based Space Kidz India and Bengaluru-based Syzygy Space Technologies have undergone testing at URSC, the...

Internationally already primarily through the european space agency to support a lot of r. and d. in collaboration with the rest of europe but we also cooperate internationally on the safety of the operating environment and thats something thats increasingly important so i feel very confident that we will continue strong international partnerships in the u.k. space sector and how would work with the european space agency change so we will remain a very strong participant in the european space ag...

The international space station could be headed to space sector, according to washington post the trump administration plans to stop funding space station in 2024, instead the president will request $150 million from congress to support the development of commercial successors, well, no word yet if there are any potential buyers or how it will be used in the future. and also today the trump administration will submit its budget to congress and according to white house budget director you cant ex...

A huge amount of local government debt you have a very cumbersome space sector which has failed to modernize you have overcapacity in any industry sectors like coal and steel and many analysts believe that to deal with these are significant problems the government needs to push forward with gender of reform they needs to bring in more market forces to try and shun some of these older more comes and sectors into life however the scene in speech hasnt given them much hope he largely reiterated pre...

When you look at it, one of the things that nasa has done extraordinarily well, and people have sort of missed the boat on, is the exploration of the solar system. i hope everybody realizes that by the time we get to pluto in 2015, nasa will have explored very, very closely every planet of the solar system, and thats a remarkable achievement. so pushing off this other work to another group that can do it better only makes it easier for nasa to do what it does best. >> is pluto a planet again or ...

That part of the program. >> is it the next man who steps on the moon will be going there as an employee or going to do mining or pay $3 million for the privilege? >> all of those things mixed in. keith, you can go visit international space station for a mere $25 million. for all the rest of the exploration stuff, it will be a mixture of the governmental stuff that will have additional support provided by the commercial space sector. we will put all of these assets together to build the explorat...

>> so is the next man who steps on the moon, will he be going there as an employee of someone, or will he be going there to do some mining, or will he be paid $3 million for the privilege? >> i think youll have all of these things mixed in together. already, keith, you can go visit the international space station for a mere $25 million. >> yeah. >> yeah, but for all the rest of the exploration stuff, heres whats going to happen, is that it will be a mixture of the governmental stuff that will ha...

His budget has been gutted, or is there truth to it? >> no, i think theres actually a lot of truth to it. when you look at it, one of the things that nasa has done extraordinarily well, and people have sort of missed the boat on, is the exploration of the solar system. i hope everybody realizes that by the time we get to pluto in 2015, nasa will have explored very, very closely every planet of the solar system, and thats a remark pbl achievement. so pushing off this other work to another group t...

And the telescope the kepler, even the hubble after the initial problems with it, nasa seems to do unmanned pretty well. does the move to farm out the manned part of it to entrepreneurs make any sense? >> it actually does make sense. because when you look at the whole program, nasa does a really great job, as you said, with all the unmanned stuff. and the problem with the manned part is that its extraordinarily expensive and it really takes a lot for congress to get behind such a mission, becaus...