Interview: Microspace, Singapore’s 1st Newspace company
Microspace, which builds and operates its own nanosatellites, is Singapore's first Newspace company, having set up here in 2007. The company launched its first satellite POPSAT in 2014, making history for...
ISRO releases Oct 8 Mars images
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has just released its most recent image of Mars, taken on October 8 2017, from at altitude of from an altitude of 70,157 km (the first...
India’s Prime Minister announces manned space mission by 2022
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day speech today, announced that the country is set on flying its first manned space mission by 2022.
This comes in light of recent...
German instrument on China’s lunar lander measures cosmic radiation
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019. On board, German instrument Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) has been measuring temporally...
China and the UK begin on-orbit telescope assembly project
On 24 October 2017, China and the UK launched the The Ultra-Large Aperture On-Orbit Assembly Project, which will work towards on-orbit assembly of a jointly-developed space telescope.
Led by the China's Changchun...
Facing the heat: the amazing engineering of the Parker Solar Probe
The other evening when I took a taxi ride home, the driver said “what a hot day!” as soon as I got in. She went on to explain that she had...
ISRO visits Indonesia’s space agency LAPAN to discuss Chandrayaan-2
On 26 April 2018, delegates from India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), visited Indonesia’s space agency LAPAN at its Satellite Centre in Bogor, West Java. The purpose of...
China’s seeds have sprouted on the Moon!
For the first time in the history of the known universe, life has intentionally taken hold on another world.
And in another first for mankind…new life has also died on a new...
Japan-US FOXSI experiment & Hinode satellite discover solar nanoflares
Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), a research institute under the purview of Japan’s space agency JAXA, has announced that an international research team has discovered hidden solar nanoflares...
Chang’e-4 relay satellite operating smoothly, lunar rover to launch in December
Based on the operational success of its relay satellite launched on May 21 this year, China has confirmed that the Chang’e-4 lunar rover will be launch in December as scheduled.
The announcement...