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China unveils first homegrown space mining robot
China's first space mining robot has been developed by...
North Korea rejects G7 call for denuclearization, vows to ‘strengthen’ nuclear forces
North Korea on Monday vowed to "steadily update and...
Taiwan showcases innovative technologies at Satellite 2025
Innovative technologies are on display at the Taiwan Space...
Japanese Astronaut Onishi departs with three others for 2nd Space Mission
Takuya Onishi has left for space for his second...
Saudi Arabia, Korea Sign Memorandum of Cooperation to Enhance Space Collaboration
Riyadh, SPA: The Saudi Space Agency (SSA) today signed...
UAE, Bahrain boost space and climate monitoring with satellite launches
The UAE and Bahrain successfully launched on Sunday their satellites, Etihad-SAT and...
UAE launches first SAR satellite Etihad-SAT
The satellite, weighing 220kg, was launched into space aboard...
China opens 2028 Mars sample return mission to international cooperation
HELSINKI — China is inviting interested parties to submit...
ISRO Chairman Inaugurates Research Centre At IIT Madras To Address Thermal Challenges In Space Applications
This will be nodal centre for research in heat...
Chandrayaan-5 Mission Approved, To Carry 250 kg Rover: ISRO Chief
The Chandrayaan programme has been instrumental in India's lunar...

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

GIS on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway

At festival’s end, tired pilgrims attending the Sunning of the Buddha Festival in the Chinese city of Xining (the capital of Qinghai Province), board the Qinghai-Tibet Railway train and start the 26-hour trip home to...

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The Value of Data

The biggest impediment to the wider uptake of GIS around the world is the reluctance of bureaucrats to share their data, and the reluctance of politicians to show leadership in implementation of the technology. This...

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Cyclone Sidr

Parviz Tarikhi is a space science and technology worker in Iran. As a candidate for a PhD degree in Physics, he presently focuses on microwave remote sensing. He has been involved with the United Nations Committee on...

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

More Delays for Galileo GNSS

Ambitious European plans to bring the Galileo satellite navigation system into operation by 2010 seem unlikely to succeed. Authorities in the EU bureaucracies are now offering 2013 as the earliest likely date. A meeting of...

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Towards Landsat 8

The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation is to build the Operational Land Imager for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre awarded the contract. The OLI will be the principal sensor on...

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Himalayan Floods from Glacial Lakes

A new study is advocating the development of an early warning system for glacial lake outburst flooding in the Himalayas. The study was supported by the UN's Environment Program Regional Office for Asia and the...

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Settling Indonesia/Australia/Timor Maritime Boundaries

East Timor, the youngest country in the world, celebrated the fifth anniversary of its independence from Indonesia on 20 May. It is a country of tremendous challenges -- it is one of the poorest in the world...

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report last week. It was the third in a series of four planned reports. The latest document says it is possible to reduce greenhouse gas...

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Low Level Risk of Flooding

Almost 247 million people live in low elevation coastal zones, according to figures in a paper published in the journal Environment and Urbanisation. Scientists from the Centre for International Earth Science and the International Institute for...

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Virtually Offshore

Petrochemical facilities that were built in an era before Computer Aided Design often have little or no documentation about the way things were originally constructed. That makes it difficult to design a refit. But lasers...

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