After Pakistan, which pulled out of India-mooted South Asian Satellite Project, Afghanistan too has shown no interest in the venture.Sources said Afghanistan has tied up with a European company for its space-related needs.
China's Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite was sent into space on Sunday at 10:43 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's gobi desert.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday successfully launched a Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, the Korean Central Television (KCTV) reported.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday successfully launched a Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, the Korean Central Television (KCTV) reported.
Japan will launch an X-ray astronomy satellite atop an H-2A carrier rocket in February next year, as an effort to elucidate the structure of space and its evolution.
Japan on Tuesday launched an H-2A rocket on its first fully commercial mission, carrying a communications satellite for a Canadian satellite company, which will provide broadband communications coverage from South America to the Middle East.
After being delayed for several months, the third satellite of Global Xpress (GX) program was scheduled for launch later this month, Inmarsat, the company behind the project, announced on Monday.
After more than 10 days in space, China's 19th Beidou navigation satellite is working autonomously and has set up a link with another satellite.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday blasted U.S. accusation of its satellite program, saying its satellite launch is for "peaceful purposes," the official KCNA news agency reported Saturday.
Nigeria would design, fabricate, test and launch its indigenous satellite by 2018, Minister of Science and Technology, Abdu Bulama, said on Tuesday.
Malaysia on Sunday received new satellite images from the French authorities showing potential debris along the southern corridor missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 might have taken, according to a statement of Malaysian Ministry of Transport.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) confirmed late Sunday that it has received new French satellite photos showing objects possibly related to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH307 in the southern Indian Ocean.
Japan launched a rocket early Friday morning with a global precipitation monitoring satellite developed by U.S. and Japanese agencies on board, said the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a European-owned telecommunication satellite blasted off Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the rocket's operator said.
Vietnam will launch the first remote sensing satellite, VNREDSat-1, into orbit on May 4 from the Kourou launch pad, Guyana, France, reported the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on its website, quoting sources from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology as saying.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned the satellite launch on Dec. 12 by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying that Pyongyang "used ballistic missile technology and was in violation of resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009)."
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