DEWA to launch second nanosatellite this month
The nanosatellite features a high-resolution camera that will be used for Earth observation missions.
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The nanosatellite features a high-resolution camera that will be used for Earth observation missions.
When operational in May, IS-40e will be positioned at 91 degrees West delivering a wide range of services and coverage for Intelsat customers.
SES-18 and SES-1 are due to start services in June after using onboard hydrazine-fueled propulsion to reach their geostationary orbital slots.
With this launch, OneWeb only has one more launch remaining before its first-generation constellation is complete.
Al Neyadi is the second Emirati to travel into space, following on from Hazza Al Mansouri's eight-day stay on the ISS in September 2019.
Nasa has set a new launch date for the SpaceX rocket carrying Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi after the blast-off was postponed on February 27.
The mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
The new I-6 satellites add further capabilities to Inmarsats Orchestra communications network.
The two mission specialists, Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from Saudi Arabia, are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut programme.
I-6 F1 is scheduled to connect its first customers later this year, with I-6 F2 set to follow in 2024.
MENUT is a six-unit CubeSat weighing less than 10 kg, with a mission to observe Earth in order to improve spatial planning and help understand the effects of the climate ...
The mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX is slated to launch I-6 F2 on a Falcon 9 in the middle of February toward an orbital slot covering the Americas.
MBRSC has announced that the first Arab long-duration astronaut mission is scheduled to launch at 11.07 AM UAE time on February 26, 2023.
This will be the UAE's second ISS mission, after Hazza Al Mansouri spent eight days on the orbiting science laboratory in 2019.
During the mission, Al Neyadi will conduct many in-depth and advanced scientific experiments as part of the UAE Astronaut Programme.
Elcome will equip its customers with advanced solutions that leverage the capabilities of Starlink.
It has an expected life span of about three years during which it will conduct various scientific tasks such as studying the Sun, X-ray emissions and space weather.
In addition to geological information, the satellite's high-definition camera will provide images of the country.
The two cubesats will use complementary scientific instruments to investigate the conditions that cause these disruptive features to form.
The European Space Agency and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites will cooperate with NASA on the programme.
SWOT is a joint mission of NASA and the French space agency CNES to track water levels globally with much better resolution than past spacecraft.
SpaceX is slated to launch another pair of O3b mPower satellites later in 2023, and then three on a single Falcon 9 mission in 2024 to add additional capacity to ...
Crew 6 will be launched to the International Space Station in mid-February next year aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with Sultan AlNeyadi and two other astronauts.
The Rashid Rover will analyse the plasma on the lunar surface and conduct experiments to understand more about lunar dust.
Earlier this year, Sidus signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX for five LizzieSat rideshare missions starting in 2023.
The latest launch gives OneWeb 504 of the 648 satellites in its proposed LEO constellation.
If the rover lands successfully, the UAE will be the fourth country to reach the moon.
The mission will also see the first spacecraft funded and built by a private Japanese firm to land on the moon.
The rover is built to take a carousel of images of the Moon's surroundings via high-resolution cameras.
Eutelsat 10B satellite will deliver high-throughput service across Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
The rover is built to take a carousel of images of the Moons surroundings via high-resolution cameras.
NASA has completed a contract modification for what is formally known as Option B of its Human Landing System (HLS) contract with SpaceX.
Hotbird 13G satellite is designed to provide up to 1,000 television channels, including high-definition television broadcasts of 4K video, to over 160m households across MENA and Europe.
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace has built the lander that will deliver the Emirati-built Rashid rover to the lunar surface.
Starlink now has five different types of services - residential, business, RV (mobile), maritime, and aviation.
The satellite will help carry more than a thousand TV channels across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
On board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the mission is expected to launch next month from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The two Intelsat television broadcasting satellites are heading for geostationary orbit as part of a multibillion-dollar programme to clear C-band frequencies for 5G wireless services.
As part of the agreement, NASA and SpaceX will look at the potential of using a Dragon spacecraft to reboost or even service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Arabsat 7A is expected to replace the bulk of the existing C and Ku-band capacity on Arabsat 5A as the satellite reaches the end of its life.
Software-defined satellites present an $87bn revenue opportunity thanks to payload flexibility and price advantages. But challenges around production, ground operations and interoperability must first be resolved, experts tell Keith Fernandez.
The Falcon 9 mission will take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in mid-2023.
The contract modification includes ground, launch, in-orbit, and return and recovery operations, cargo transportation for each mission, and a lifeboat capability while docked to the ISS.
For the Ax-2 mission, Axiom Space will submit four proposed crew members and four backup crew to the stations Multilateral Crew Operations Panel for review.
Superbird-9 will deliver broadcast and broadband missions in Ku-band primarily over Japan and Eastern Asia.
The UAE astronaut will serve as a mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission.
For the fixed-site services, Starlink will assign an individual 22-km diameter cell for Air Force use.
The first mission under the agreement will launch no sooner than November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX in February 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch for SPHEREx alone, valued at $98.8m.
The Emirati astronaut will join NASAs Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg alongside Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev.
The contract is valued at $255m for the launch and other mission-related costs.
SES-22 is the first to launch six geostationary satellites that SES ordered to migrate broadcast customers into a narrower swath of C-band.
The company has ordered six satellites to provide the necessary capacity for its customers, with SES-18, SES-19, SES-20, SES-21 and SES-22 all to be launched in 2022.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will fly the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission no earlier than late this year.
The mission is expected to complete the company's initial research and development programme and facilitate integration testing with mobile network operators around the world.
The satellite will be located at the 7 degrees West orbital slot and provide Ku-band services for the Middle East and North Africa.
Satellogic announced a similar agreement with SpaceX in January 2021 covering four rideshare launches.
Currently, a Starlink aircraft antenna is installed on a JSX airplane for testing purposes.
The awards are in the form of Space Act Agreements with the companies matching or exceeding the awards with their own funds.
