The final adjustments are being made to the new WorldView-2 satellite, which will come online in early 2010.

Bahrain Airport's extension will be featuring a new technology that cools down aircraft in the height of the got and humid Gulf summers.

Dr. Ramin Khadem, chairman of Odyssey Moon Limited, gave an account of his company's planned commercial moon missions and made a case for the region to look further for its space exploration.

Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceshipOne (SS1) designer, Burt Rutan, have revealed SS2 to the public for the first time since construction of the world's first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007. SS2 has been designed to take many thousands of private astronauts into space after test programming and all required U.S. government licensing has been completed.

Abu Dhabi-based Yahsat is preparing for the launch of its next-genration Yahsat 1A platform in early 2011. If successful Yahsat 1B would follow it in late 2011.

The United Arab Emirates plans to launch DubaiSat-2 in 2012, just three years after the launch of the first Emirati satellite to be sent into orbit, according to Ahmed Al Mansoori, director general of the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST).

There was no shortage of space companies looking for investors on day one of the Global Space Technology Forum, even if some were more subtle than others.

GE Aviation Czech is set to begin by year-end certification testing of its new H80 turboprop engine, which will produce up to 800 shaft horsepower (shp) to power utility, agriculture and business and general aviation aircraft.