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NASA administrator Bill Nelson embarks on India and UAE visits

Arnold Pinto 27/11/2023 0

Both countries are signatories to the US-led Artemis Accords NASA Administrator Bill Nelson travels to India from the US on November 27, 2023, after which he heads to the UAE. During his visit to both countries, Nelson will meet with key government and space officials to enhance bilateral

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Catch the ISS Expedition 69 crew in the UAE this week

Arnold Pinto 27/11/2023 0

MBRSC facilitates the visit in collaboration with NASA Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) is hosting NASA’s Expedition 69 crew (SpaceX Crew-6 mission) on a week-long visit to the UAE, with the NASA, MBRSC astronauts and Roscomos cosmonauts now participating in public-facing events in the Gulf nation. The Expedition 69 members that spent 186 […]

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Axiom Space and Prada to jointly develop spacesuits for NASA’s 2025 lunar mission

Arnold Pinto 08/10/2023 0

The collaboration draws on the core strengths of both private entities Axiom Space, the Houston, Texas-based space company building the world’s first commercial space station, has announced a collaboration with Prada, the Italian luxury fashion house, to develop lunar spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis III astronaut mission. In March 2023, Axiom Space revealed that it was […]

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Toyota provides an update on its Lunar Cruiser programme

Arnold Pinto 27/09/2023 0

Japanese lunar rover is central to NASA’s Artemis programme Toyota Motor Corporation has announced the latest details of its Lunar Cruiser project that the giant global automaker is researching and developing. The Toyota Lunar Cruiser is a crewed pressurised rover designed to provide mobility for astronauts on the lunar surface, which Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Tumultuous welcome awaits Sultan Al Neyadi’s return to the UAE

Arnold Pinto 14/09/2023 0

Emirati astronaut hero returns home on September 18, 2023, from the US UAE astronaut Sultan Saif Al Neyadi, who has created history by undertaking the longest manned spaceflight by an Arab astronaut (six months) and becoming the first Arab astronaut to conduct a spacewalk (7hr,1mn), is all set to receive a grand hero’s welcome on […]

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UAE’s Sultan Al Neyadi and fellow astronauts return to Earth

Arnold Pinto 04/09/2023 0

Crew-6 had spent 186 days on the International Space Station UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev have returned to Earth safely after their SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft splashed down with parachutes in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 08:17am (Gulf […]

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Its all systems go as UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi is set to return to Earth

Arnold Pinto 01/09/2023 0

Al Neyadi returns with the longest Arab manned space mission and first spacewalk by an Arab ‘najmonaut’ records to his name UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and his four other Crew-6 fellow astronauts were scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 3, 2023, with the Emirati having set a […]

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Four nations’ astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station today

Arnold Pinto 27/08/2023 0

A NASA-led international crew of four astronauts is in orbit and headed to the International Space Station (ISS) after a successful launch at 10:37 am (Gulf Standard Time) on August 26, 2023, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. This is NASA’s seventh commercial crew rotation mission to the ISS and […]

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2 UAE astronaut candidates prep for spacewalks with NASA in Houston

Arnold Pinto 15/08/2023 0

UAE astronaut candidates Nora Al Matrooshi and Mohammad Al Mulla are conducting high-intensity spacewalk training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The two UAE nationals are part of NASA’s 2021 astronaut candidate class training programme. The one-of-a-kind NBL is the world’s largest indoor pool and is

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Voyager Space and Airbus in new partnership to build commercial space station

Arnold Pinto 03/08/2023 0

Voyager Space, a US-based global leader in space exploration, and Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus), the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe, have signed a joint venture agreement to develop, build, and operate Starlab, a commercial space station planned to succeed the International Space Station. The partnership will bring together world-class leaders in the

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Flight data analysis confirms ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander crash-landed due to landing stage fuel shortage

Arnold Pinto 29/05/2023

The ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 (Hakuto-R M1) lunar lander that crash-landed on the lunar surface on April 26, 2023 had run out of fuel for its propulsion system after the spacecraft’s altitude measurement system erroneously estimated the altitude of the small sedan-sized lander to be zero (on the lunar surface) when in effect the spacecraft […]