Tag: United Arab Emirates
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Royal Group of Abu Dhabi Backs $1 Billion Expansion of Altair AI Imaging Constellation to 50 Satellites
Loft Orbital and UAE-based Marlan Space announced on September 9 a $1 billion commitment led by the Royal Group of Abu Dhabi to expand the Altair Earth observation constellation from 10 to 50 satellites. The spacecraft will combine optical and synthetic aperture radar imaging with onboard artificial intelligence, serving government and commercial customers in the…
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UAE Grants Starlink 10-Year Licence as Initial Network Capacity Sells Out
The United Arab Emirates has granted Starlink regulatory approval to operate a public satellite communications network and provide broadband services nationwide, although the company’s consumer ordering system indicates that available capacity has already been allocated. The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority announced the 10-year General Space Services Licence on August 28, 2026. It authorizes…
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Three spacefliers, including first Emirati in orbit, return to Earth from space station
Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and fellow spacefliers Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin landed in their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Today’s landing of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan brought one of the shortest…
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Trio’s arrival boosts space station’s population to nine, including first Emirati
A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Three more spacefliers arrived at the International Space Station today in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, increasing the orbital outpost’s population from its usual six to a crowded nine. One of…
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UAE details ambitious plan for Martian weather satellite
Artist’s concept of the Emirates Mars Mission. Credit: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have announced the Arab world’s first Mars probe will launch in July 2020 and collect global measurements of the Martian atmosphere. Assuming a launch in 2020, the robotic probe will fly on a seven-month cruise to…