UNSW Canberra launches 1st satellite, opens national space mission design facility
Australia’s first national space mission design facility was officially opened yesterday by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the University of New South Wales Canberra (UNSW Canberra), according to a press...
Kenya’s first satellite deployed from JAXA’s ISS module
On 11 May 2018, the first ever Kenyan was deployed into space from Japan’s space agency JAXA’s module on International Space Station (ISS).
The satellite, known as 1KUNS-PF, is a 1U Cubesat...
China conducts first intercontinental quantum communication video call
On 29 September 2017, he China National Space Administration (CNSA), China’s space agency, conducted the world’s first video conferencing call through a quantum communication satellite network. The call, transmitted between Austria...
ISRO successfully tests High Thrust Vikas Engine for GSLV-Mk III
Yesterday, India’s space agency the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced it has successfully completed a ground test to qualify a high thrust version of its Vikas Engine, which is used...
Thailand’s mu Space to build spaceship factory
On December 25 2020, Thai startup mu Space conducted the soft opening of its spaceship factory - the first in Thailand - a prototype that will form the basis of a...
Interview: Orbion Space Technology seeks to revolutionise smallsat propulsion
Like passengers utilizing public transportation, all satellites on a single launch vehicle are not going to the same destination, yet the bus only has one stop.
Once a satellite is placed into...
Indian lab discovers large exoplanet around a Sun-like star
The scientific team, led by Prof Abhijit Chakraborty of Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, have found a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune size planet (mass of about 27 Earth Mass and size of...
NASA to contribute to 2 upcoming JAXA missions
NASA and Japan’s space agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have announced plans to continue collaborating on space exploration missions.
In a press conference held at JAXA headquarters yesterday, the two...
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...
JAXA co-develops sensing system to monitor space contamination
JAXA and Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd have codeveloped a new sensing system to monitor outgases emitted from components and materials of spacecraft.
Known as Twin QCM, the system is new, world-first...
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