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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.
In early November, a milestone in the history of human conflict appears to have been crossed. Israel’s Aerial Defense System shot down a surface-to-surface missile near the Red Sea, an Israeli ...
The travel time of the Hope probe was about 200 days on its journey of 493 × 10 ^ 6 km (306 × 10 ^ 6 mi). [30] Upon arrival, it entered an initial 40-hour orbit, [ 31 ] from which it will perform a periapsis raising maneuver to enter a final orbit of 55 hour period (slightly over 2 Martian days) and study the Martian atmosphere for two years ...
The UAE Space Agency (UAESA) (Arabic: وكالة الإمارات للفضاء translit: wikālat al-Imārāt l-lifaḍā') is the space agency of the United Arab Emirates government responsible for the development of the country's space industry. It was created in 2014 and is responsible for developing and regulating the space sector in the UAE.
The first images from space were taken on the sub-orbital V-2 rocket flight launched by the US on October 24, 1946. Satellite image of Fortaleza.. Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
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.
The museum’s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.
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.