Space Agency

Australia to create national space agency

Sydeny - Muslimchronicle

Australia on Monday committed to creating a national space agency as it looks to cash in on the lucrative and fast-evolving astronautical sector. The announcement came at a week-long Adelaide space conference attended by the world’s top scientists and experts including SpaceX chief Elon Musk. It brings Canberra — which already has significant involvement in national and international space activitiesRead more

Close call: When asteroids whisk past Earth

Paris - Arab Today

A peanut-shaped asteroid 1.3 kilometres (3,280 feet) across streaked past Earth on Wednesday, giving astronomers a rare chance to check out a big space rock up close. But not too close. Dubbed 2014-JO25, the asteroid came nearest at 12:20 GMT and is now hurtling away from the centre of our solar system, said Ian Carnelli, an astronomer from the EuropeanRead more

Greece targets the space race as well as start-ups

London - Arab Today

Nikos Pappas, Greece’s Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, is serious about going into space. "Greece is one of the few European countries that was lacking a space agency,” Pappas said in an interview with Bloomberg at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. "The Greek space agency will coordinate public and private institutions in order to make bestRead more

UAE launches national space policy

Abu Dhabi - Arab Today

The UAE Space Agency issued the Arab world’s first national space policy in the capital on Tuesday – the first step to formulating laws for the industry. "The policy is just like a torch guiding us to where we have to go," said Dr Mohammed Al Ahbabi, the agency’s director general. "Our space laws will have elements designed for tomorrow’sRead more

Names of UAE martyrs to be sent to space then returned to families

Abu Dhabi - Arab Today

The UAE Space Agency is planning to honour the country’s martyrs by sending their names into space later this year. The agency aims to send every martyr’s name and the date and the place of their deaths to the International Space Station, stitched into badges featuring a commemoration day logo. Once returned to Earth, the badges will be presented toRead more

AURAK, UAE Space Agency sign partnership agreement

Abu dhabi - WAM

The American University of Ras al-Khaimah, AURAK, has signed a partnership agreement with the UAE Space Agency, for research-based cooperation and knowledge-sharing in the space sector. A delegation from the university, consisting of Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, its president, Professor Mousa Mohsen, dean of the School of Engineering and director of RAK Research and Innovation Center, and Dr. Abdul-Halim Jallad,Read more