Inmarsat, Indian govt partner on disaster relief connectivity
Inmarsat is working in conjunction with strategic partner Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Indian state-owned telecommunications company, to provide vital remote connectivity to support disaster relief, according to an Inmarsat...
Chinese company LinkSpace to develop reusable orbital rocket
LinkSpace, China's first privately-funded NewSpace company, has announced it will offer a reusable version of NewLine-1, a two-stage orbital launch vehicle currently in development. NewLine-1's maiden launch is scheduled for 2020,...
Pakistan allocates US$40.7m to space agency for 2018-19
Pakistan, in its latest budget released on 27 April 2018, has allocated PKR4.7 billion (~US$40.7 million) to Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Organisation (SUPARCO). This is a 34% jump over the...
Rocket Lab integrates payloads for first of NASA’s dedicated small launch contracts
Rocket Lab, a New Zealand/USA launch services company, has just finished integrating NASA payloads, slated for launch within the first half of 2018. The payload integration process took place at Rocket...
China’s Chang’e 5 lunar mission delayed to 2019, Chang’e 4 on schedule
On China's annual Space Day, held on 24 April, officials from the Chinese space programme announced the lunar probe Chang'e 5 will be launched in 2019.
Chang'e 5 was originally planned for...
ISRO’s GSAT-11 recalled from launch site
On 24 April, Arianespace officially confirmed that GSAT-11, India’s latest communications satellite and Arianespace’s planned next launch, has officially been sent back to India from the Arianespace launch site at Kourou,...
China to launch at least 6 scientific spacecraft by 2021
China has just announced that it will launch a slew of space science missions, targeting the years 2020/21.
The announcement was made yesterday at the first China Aerospace Conference, which was held...
Esri Malaysia Directions LIVE 2018
Directions LIVE 2018 – Esri Malaysia’s ArcGIS technology roadshow, will be held in 4 cities in Malaysia beginning today, April 24.
The event will see members of the local geospatial community sharing...
Arianespace announces contract with SSL to launch BSAT-4b for Japanese operator
As the annual Japan Week event opened, Arianespace announced a new contract with SSL (a Maxar Technologies company) for an Ariane 5 mission in 2020 to orbit the BSAT-4b satellite for...
Vietnam, Airbus discuss future of VNREDSat program
On March 7, 2018, Phan Ngoc Minh, Vice President of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, met Guy Limouzin, Vice President, Sales, Earth Observation Space Systems, Airbus Defense and Space....
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