Friday, 17 March 2017 TOKYO – The launch took place on Friday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan and was broadcast live on the internet by Necovideo Visual Solutions. According to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the IGS Radar-5 spy satellite was developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. It is Japan’s sixth radar reconnaissance …
Read More »China to launch powerful new satellite in April
Saturday, 18 February 2017 BEIJING: It will be part of a huge network that will expand the nation’s Wi-Fi access. China will launch its most advanced communications satellite in April as it builds a large capacity network that will enable passengers on jetliners and high-speed trains to use the internet. …
Read More »First object from earth to sent to orbital platform
Thursday, 13 July 2017 A research team in China has completed the first successful teleportation of a quantum-paired photon from the surface of the Earth to a satellite in orbit, at the same time breaking the distance record for the process. Chinese scientists working at a high-altitude research station in …
Read More »Engineer from India creates mini-satellites from soda cans
Tuesday, 11 July 2017 While everyone can recall a moment from primary school where they used everyday recyclable materials for an art project, one 22-year-old from Bengaluru, India, has taken it a step further. Putting everyone to shame, Suraj Kumar Jana, the founder of Opencube LabsBased, shut down the …
Read More »Japan launches Michibiki No. 2 satellite in bid to build domestic GPS
Friday, 2 June 2017 Tokyo: Japan successfully launched a satellite as part of a broader effort to build a homegrown geolocation system that boosts the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres. An H-IIA rocket blasted off yesterday morning from the Tanegashima space centre in southern …
Read More »China to build global navigatiob satellite system by 2020
Saturday, 27 May 2017 China plans to build a global navigation satellite system, which is expected to provide service to users around the world, by the year 2020. The country will send six to eight satellites to space later this year, and it will have 18satellites in space by 2018 …
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