Space Agency

Moon village the first stop to Mars

Adelaide - Emirates Voice

Setting up a permanent village on the moon is the first step towards exploring Mars, the European Space Agency said Thursday as plans to reach and colonise the Red Planet gathered pace. At an annual gathering of 4,000 global space experts in Adelaide, the ESA said the Moon was the "right place to be" as humans expand economic activities beyondRead 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