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The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC, Arabic: مركز محمد بن راشد للفضاء, romanized: markaz Muḥammad bin Rāshid lil-faḍāʾ) is a Dubai Government organization working on the UAE space program, which includes various space satellites projects, such as the Emirates Mars Mission, the Emirates Lunar Mission, and the UAE astronaut program.
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
Hope was the first of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions also launched by the national space agencies of China (Tianwen-1 orbiter, deployable and remote cameras, lander and Zhurong rover) and the United States (Mars 2020 and its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone).
The United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty, ratified in 1967, is one of the only international agreements on the subject of space. It bans the use of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear ...
Kottamia Astronomical Observatory is the largest telescope in the Arab world, including the Middle East and North Africa. The telescope, which is located 80 km from the center of Cairo , has a main mirror diameter of about 1.88 meters.
Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area. [1] All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur. [2] Situated in the Kazakh Steppe, some 90 metres (300 ft) above sea level, it is 200 kilometres (120 mi) to the east of the Aral Sea and north of the Syr Darya.
Space Imaging Middle East LLC (SIME) is a regional affiliate of DigitalGlobe, the largest commercial remote sensing company in the world. Established in 1997, SIME started off by introducing high-resolution satellite imagery to the Middle East region, operating from government-run ground stations .
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...