e-GEOS to supply Australian Maritime Safety Authority with satellite data for oil spills
On 7 February e-GEOS, a joint venture of Telespazio (a partnership between Thales and Leonard) and the Italian Space Agency, announced that it has won a contract to supply geo-information services...
India’s Department of Space Minister Jitendra Singh explains causes of PSLV-C39 failure
Yesterday on 8 February 2017, Dr. Jitendra Singh, India’s Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office, Department of Space, replied to a written question about the causes of the PSLV C-39...
LAPAN aims for experimental microsatellite constellation by 2020
Indonesia’s space agency LAPAN is planning to operate an experimental microsatellite constellation by 2020, said Head of LAPAN Prof. Dr Thomas Djamaluddin. The announcement was made at the Global Space and...
Singapore, GomSpace to work on LEO-based VHF comms for aircraft
According to a press release, GomSpace together with The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) signed a research collaboration agreement on the sidelines of...
JAXA launches modified sounding rocket SS-520 No. 5
On 3 February 2018, at 2:03 p.m. JST (GMT+9), Japan’s space agency JAXA successfully launched its SS-520 No. 5 carrying 3U CubeSat TRICOM-1R. The launch, which took place from Uchinoura Space...
NASA, JAXA sign joint statement of cooperation on space exploration
On 24 January 2018, Japan's space agency JAXA and NASA signed a joint statement affirming their continued interest in cooperation on space exploration, as a product of the Japan-U.S. Summit held...
Event Roundup: The Inaugural SG[ASEAN] Workshop 2018
On 31 January 2018, Singapore hosted the first ever Space Generation (SG) Workshop, held at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (E2A). The event was...
China launches Sino-Italian satellite Zhangheng-1, two ESA CubeSats & 4 others
On 2 February 2018 at 3:15pm Beijing time (GMT+8), China launched Zhangheng-1, also known as China Seismo Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) along with six other satellites. These included 2 CubeSats from the...
Japan looks to space industry to stimulate stagnant economy
In 2017, the Japanese government published its Space Industry Vision 2030, which stated that Japan will work towards doubling the market size of its space industry to 2.4 trillion Japanese Yen...
DS-SAR satellite acquired by Singapore’s defence technology agency & ST Electronics
Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), the executive technology agent for the country’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), has jointly acquired a new earth observation satellite with ST Electronics, a Singapore-based...
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Earth observation consortium EO-ALERT endorses Addvalue’s IDRS
Addvalue Innovation, a Singapore-listed mobile satellite communication company, received the endorsement of its Inter-satellite Data Relay Service (IDRS) from EO-ALERT, a European Union’s Horizon...
