LAPAN to build centre for technology transfer
Indonesian space agency LAPAN will develop an Aerospace and Technology Park (ATP), which will facilitate technology transfer from LAPAN to government and private industry.
Under this scheme, LAPAN aims to add...
Indonesia’s space agency holds rocketry contest for university students
Indonesia's National Aeronautics and Aviation Agency (LAPAN), organised a Rocket Assembly and Rocket Indonesia Contest (Komunrindo), and a Weather Balloon Assembly Contest 2017 (Kombat) for public and private university students all...
China to build first Mars base simulator in Qinghai province near Tibet
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced that China’s first Mars base simulator will be built at the Qaidam Basin area in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai province, in south-western China. The simulator...
A close look at JAXA’s Int-Ball zero-gravity drone on the ISS
On 4 June 2017, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) and carried with it the world’s first zero-gravity camera drone that can be controlled from...
JAXA’s clear-air turbulence detection system to be tested in Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 2018
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s onboard clear-air turbulence detection system will be tested for commercial use under Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program in 2018.
Developed in 2012 through JAXA’s SafeAvio project, the system uses...
7 unlikely ISRO spinoff technologies
Like most national space programmes, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed many indigenous technologies that have either been directly transferred to industry, or that have been adapted for non-space...
Japan demos world’s 1st instance of quantum communication with a microsatellite
With all the hype around China’s quantum teleportation breakthrough, the world scarcely noticed that around the same time, Japan achieved a similar feat with a microsatellite.
Japan’s National Institute of Information and...
Two ISRO space technologies to be used in India’s vehicles
Two technologies developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be used in India’s automobile and transportation sectors to improve efficiency and contribute to the country’s development.
The first is a...
Chinese scientists publish paper on ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
A team of Chinese scientists has just published a paper demonstrating how they successfully teleported a photon from a ground station at Ngari, Tibet, to Micius, one of China’s Low Earth...
2nd batch of Chinese researchers to live in Yuegong-1 for a world record of...
Four more Chinese researchers, Liu Guanghui, Yi Zhihao, Chu Zhengpei and Wang Wei, have voluntarily entered China’s moon-simulation lab, known as Yuegong-1 or the Lunar Palace, and will remain confined there...
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