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India allocates US$1.91 billion to Department of Space, an increase of 3.5% over 2020

In the annual budget released by India's Ministry of Finance on February 1, the Department of Space has been allocated 139.4909 billion rupees (roughly US$1.91 billion). The newly established NewSpace India...

Australia’s Moonshot to launch 2021 accelerator program, invest up to AU$40k per startup

Moonshot, an Australian incubator that itself began as a startup, is offering a 3-month accelerator program which includes an investment of up to AU$40k per startup for 4% equity. This is the...

Japan develops metal mesh for onboard deployable reflectors

Japan's space agency JAXA, along with Japanese companies Taiyo Wire Cloth, NGK Insulators, Technosolver Corporation, and Koyo Materica Corporation, have jointly developed a metal mesh for onboard deployable reflectors, achieving a...

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....

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 2020 funded consortium working on a real-time...

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...

Satellite Data, readable, applicable and executable, at the tip of your fingers

In January 2020, Coronavirus spread to the level of a pandemic. At the beginning, nobody knew what was really happening in the world. Very different kinds of information inundated the global...

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...

Singapore’s Equatorial Space Systems concludes first test flight

Singapore’s launcher startup, Equatorial Space Systems, "verifies its technology with first in-flight proof-of-concept", according to a press release. The 2.5-meters-long Low Altitude Demonstrator took flight over the vast expanse of the Felcra...

Utilization of Space Resources: Indonesia’s Perspective

Space is one of the areas that was on the horizon of development for the Founding Fathers of the Indonesia, with the establishing of institutions relating to this field since the...