April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
...) and is planning to launch from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway and, later, from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Perhaps not surprisingly, a launch site in Korea is also under development and, according to Bronzewall, is expected to be available...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
... exploration. Apart from space faring nations, even nations with very nascent space capabilities like the UAE aspire to reach Mars by 2021. Huge amounts of money are accordingly pumped into such endeavours. Quite clearly...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
... carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), The Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1) and UAE (1). With today’s successful launch, the total number of customer satellites from abroad launched by India...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... to develop space projects with. Along with BRIC nations, new potential partners could include Indonesia, the UAE, Vietnam, and Iran amongst others. “Building international partnership is, perhaps, the main strategic task for the...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... second of three spacecraft heading to the Red Planet this month, Tianwen-1 will be hot on the heels of the UAE’s Hope probe which launched earlier this week. The two are destined to reach Mars in February 2021...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... 90 degrees Celsius (minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit) at Jezero Crater. Like the two missions, Tianwen-1 and the UAE’s Hope mission, that lifted off ahead of Perseverance, NASA’s mission will also reach Mars a little over...
