Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
On June 5, 2018, China launched Fengyun-2H, a meteorological satellite that will be placed in a geosynchronous orbit. The launch took place using the three-stage rocket Long March 3A from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan Province....
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
On June 2, 2018, China launched a new Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-6, which will be mainly used in agricultural resources research and disaster monitoring. The Gaofen-6 was launched on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite...
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
As recently announced by the Australian Department of Defence, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) will soon be rolled out to Australian Army soldiers in Brisbane following the completion of the Black Hornet Nano UAS Program. The Black Hornet...
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
On May 11, 2018, the first CubeSat developed under the KiboCUBE program was successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” of the International Space Station. 1KUNS-PF was developed as Kenya’s first satellite, and the University...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
An underground test of what was claimed by North Korea to be a hydrogen bomb shook the surrounding landscape so violently that it changed the shape of an entire mountain. Radar analysis of the area revealed changes...
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
In the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the Pakistani government will spend more than $40 million on its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the country's space agency, including launching new satellites. In 2011, Islamabad spent about $35...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
The China Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that China and Finland signed an agreement to establish a joint research center for Arctic space observation and data sharing services. The agreement, signed on April 8 by Liu Jianbo,...
Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
On April 11, 2018, JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa met with Bhutan Prime Minister H.E. Tshering Tobgay. Bhutan’s first small satellite (developed under the BIRDS Project of Kyu-tech University) is expected to be deployed from the Japanese Experiment...
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
Esri entered a collaborative agreement with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of the Alibaba Group, that will enable both organizations to deliver enhanced options to customers seeking to implement Esri technology on Alibaba Cloud. Esri President...
Monday, April 9th, 2018
The 21st flight of ISRO’s RH300 Mk-II Sounding Rocket was launched on April 6, 2018, from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram. In this launch, the single-stage indigenous Sounding Rocket successfully expelled the chemical...
