Russia and Indonesia to Collaborate on Indonesian Space Activities
Indonesia’s space agency, LAPAN, reported that it has begun discussions with Russia on space-related collaborations, especially in remote sensing.
LAPAN announced yesterday that Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Mikhail Galuzin paid a visit...
Space tech a key focus for South Korea in 2020
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has released its official proposal for the year 2020, subject to Presidential approval. In it, space technology is listed as one of the Ministry's...
UK and Singapore to collaborate on quantum CubeSat
The governments of Singapore and the UK have announced a £10 million initiative (US$13.03m) to build and fly a satellite quantum key distribution (QKD) test bed. Through this collaboration, Singapore and...
China launches Algeria’s first comms satellite Alcomsat-1
Today, at 00:40 Beijing time (GMT+8), China launched Algeria's first geostationary communications satellite, Alcomsat-1. The launch took place at China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March-3B launch vehicle.
According to...
SpaceChain, Addvalue & Alba Orbital jointly receive US$600k grant
SpaceChain UK (the UK office of Singapore-based SpaceChain), together with consortium partners Singapore's Addvalue Innovation and Glasgow-based Alba Orbital, has received GBP440k (about US$600k) in funding by EUREKA GlobalStars-Singapore. Along with...
Trapped Thai boys rescued; tech companies aid in efforts
“Wild Boars is finally going home!”
That was mu Space Corp CEO and founder James Yenbamroong’s reaction as he witnessed the final mission to rescue the remaining four teenage players of the...
Japan launches SHIKISAI & TSUBAME satellites
On 23 December 2017, at 10:26 a.m. JST (1:26 a.m. UTC), Japan’s space agency JAXA launched two satellites , Global Changing Observation Mission - Climate "SHIKISAI" (GCOM-C) and the Super Low...
India’s April Chandrayaan-2 moon mission to cost US$125m
India’s space agency ISRO will attempt to launch its second lunar Chandrayaan-2, in April this year, with a launch window that will last until October.
Additionally, ISRO’s new Chairman, Dr. K Sivan,...
Upcoming launches related to Asia-Pacific (Aug-Sept 2017)
24 August 2017: Falcon 9 Full Thrust/Formosat 5 (Taiwan)
Launch vehicle: Falcon 9 Full Thrust, manufactured by SpaceX
Payload: Formosat 5 (Taiwanese Earth Observation Satellite)
Launch date: 24 August 2017
Launch time: 18:50-19:34 GMT
Location: Vandenberg...
Telkom-1 services fully restored after satellite failure
Yesterday, Telkom Indonesia announced that it has restored 100% of services disrupted due to the failure of its Telkom-1 satellite on 25 August.
The service recovery was completed at midnight on Monday,...
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