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NSTC announces Pingtung site as Taiwan’s space mission launch center
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ISRO-NASA mission to send Indian astronaut to ISS faces budget cut
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China launches new data relaying satellite into space
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China unveils first homegrown space mining robot
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North Korea rejects G7 call for denuclearization, vows to ‘strengthen’ nuclear forces
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Taiwan showcases innovative technologies at Satellite 2025
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Japanese Astronaut Onishi departs with three others for 2nd Space Mission
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Saudi Arabia, Korea Sign Memorandum of Cooperation to Enhance Space Collaboration
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Chinese Confirm Beidou Satnav System Is Operational

China's  Beidou satellite navigation system is operational, albeit mainly in China, and say they plan to have free, global coverage in place by 2020. At a press conference the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said that Beidou – which translates as Big...

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

United Remote Sensing Technology Selected as Microsoft Reseller in China

United Remote Sensing Technology Co., Ltd., (United RST) has been selected by Imagemaps, the Microsoft partner for Asia Pacific and the Indian subcontinent, as a reseller for

Monday, August 1st, 2011

UAE’s Reach Widens on Land and From Space

With each pass over Japan’s ravaged landscape in the hours and days after March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, DubaiSat-1 collected images of large swaths of toppled towns, scanned the dramatically altered coastline and zeroed in on the...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

German Aerospace Centre To Expand Operations Into Asia

The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will collaborate to undertake joint research in satellite and guided navigation, remote sensing and signal processing, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Impressed by NTU's strengths in aeronautical...

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Why Do Russian Images of Earth Look So Different from NASA’s?

It was taken by a Russian spacecraft, a new weather satellite called Elektro-L. It’s now orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit 36,000km above the equator, after being launched on January 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on board...

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Philippines – ‘Data Node’ in Asia IT Disaster Mgm’t Project

A Japan-led regional project that seeks to use remote sensing and GIS technologies in disaster management has named the Manila Observatory as a Data Analysis Node (DAN) in Asia Pacific. The Philippine Disaster Science Management Center (DSMC), along...

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

JAXA i Closes in Tokyo

The JAXA information center, JAXA i, which worked as a connecting point between people and "the sky and space" in Marunouchi, Tokyo, closed permanently on Dec. 28. We've been providing various information on the sky and space...