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...
NASA, Government of Japan Formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program
NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement strengthens the broad effort...
Updates on GLXP teams from Israel, India and Japan
Former Google Lunar X-Prize team SpaceIL have announced a launch and landing date via social media and other outlets. If all goes to plan, then Israel will be the fourth country...
Japan brings Ryugu asteroid samples home
Yesterday, 6 December 2020 at around 3 a.m JST (UTC+9), Japan’s re-entry capsule containing samples from the asteroid Ryugu landed in Woomera, South Australia.
The capsule was part of Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission...
Putin, Abe conduct live video chat with the International Space Station
On 26 May 2018, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe jointly conducted a live video call with two crew members of the International Space Station (ISS).
The call...
Orbital Assembly to build Voyager Station, a space habitat, by 2030
Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), which earlier proposed the Von Braun Station, is planning to build an in-space structure known as the Voyager Station, with an aim to complete it before 2030....
Touchdown for Chang’e 4! The ride to the Moon, and some pictures
China’s Chang’e 4 spacecraft made history when it successfully became the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon’s far side on Thursday January 3rd.
As we reported last month,...
New documentary shows astrophotography is possible in light-polluted Singapore
According to an article by National Geographic published on 3 April 2019, Singapore is one of the most light-polluted places on Earth. On a clear night, Singapore residents might be able...
KARI selects Thales Alenia Space for communications equipment on lunar probe
South Korea’s space agency, the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), has just signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space for its lunar probe’s communications equipment.
Known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter...
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...
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