Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology developed two new reconnaissance satellites, “Saudi Sat 5A” and “Saudi Sat 5B,” which will be added to the second generation of high-accuracy Saudi remote-sensing satellites to be launched in...
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
China’s government is considering building a commercial space launch center for the country’s New Space private launch companies, a number of which will be attempting their first orbital flights by the end of 2018, according to a...
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that its PSLV-C42 rocket successfully launched two foreign satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sept. 16, 2018. This mission was designed to launch two Earth-observation satellites, NovaSAR and...
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have been cooperating under the KiboCUBE program launched in 2015 to provide opportunities to deploy CubeSats from the Japanese Experiment Module...
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
Pakistan has become world’s first country to use multi-spectral imagery from the Sentinel 2A satellite to prepare crops mapping. The technology will be used to determine the type and health of crops, moisture in the soil, and...
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
China’s launch of a pair of Beidou navigation satellites on Aug. 24, 2018, saw the country set a new annual launch record as its space activities ramp up. A Long March 3B with a Yuanzheng-1 upper stage...
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Five satellites of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are playing an important role in saving lives of people stranded in the flooded affected pockets of Kerala, according to the Times of India. Earth observation satellites Oceansat-2,...
Monday, August 13th, 2018
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has undertaken the initial checkout and calibration of Shikisai, originally known as Global Change Observation Mission-Climate (GCOM-C), to start the satellite-derived data stream service in December 2018. Operation of the Shikisai...
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
On July 31, 2018, China successfully launched an optical remote sensing satellite as part of its high-resolution Earth-observation project that will provide data for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Gaofen-11 satellite was launched on a...
