As part of its plan to field a Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demo, NASA has issued a call for interested companies to submit a “capability statement.”
Officials from the UAE Space Agency (UAESA), led by His Excellency Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi, Director General of the UAE Space Agency, met with officials from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), led by Frode Mauring, Resident Representative of the UNDP office in the UAE, to discuss opportunities for cooperation between both entities.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: the president meets with airline executives, generals describe a budget crisis without admitting failure, the battle for heavy-launch business and an argument for commercialized space-traffic control.
In this week’s roundup, Malaysia’s coast guard will own UAVs, Belgium joins U.S. space situational awareness efforts, U.S. Navy to buy one fewer MQ-4 Triton and a South Korean Foreign Military Sale for Raytheon missiles.
Data from the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory also is expected to help researchers aid governments in meeting carbon-reduction goals as well as farmers.
The USA's satellite solutions provider Kymeta says the Middle East is shaping up as a key market for its mTenna high-throughput satellite connectivity terminal for which aviation grade solutions are expected by the end of the decade and commercial solutions will go to market in Q2 this year.
Space industry leaders meeting in Abu Dhabi this week addressed the need for effective international collaboration to deal with the industry's most pressing opportunities and challenges.
Tangible progress between Middle East and North Africa nations on space co-operation has moved up the regional agenda with sector leaders from the UAE, Algeria, Egypt and Bahrain signaling their readiness to drive the momentum at a first-of-a-kind meeting at the Global Space Congress in Abu Dhabi.
Airbus Defence and Space delivers satellite communications systems for EU military training missions in Somalia (EUTM Somalia) as well as for the EUCAP (European Union capacity-building mission) Sahel Niger and EUCAP Sahel Mali civilian missions.
The $2.4 billion endeavor is intended to seek out evidence of past microbial life on the Red Planet while laying the groundwork for future human exploration.
Researchers are offering a preview of how Scott Kelly fared medically after his U.S. record-setting 340 days in space as a NASA crewmember aboard the International Space Station in 2015-16.
The Arab space sector will gather under one roof to discuss ways of strengthening joint cooperation between Arab states in the space sector at the Global Space Congress.
The third of six U.S. Air Force missile warning satellites intended for geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) has successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) RD-180-powered Atlas V rocket.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: why industry experience in government helps the Pentagon get a better deal; McCain’s plans to spend big on the military; a burgeoning space rivalry; and the ongoing attempt to block the sale of aircraft to Iran Air.
