The Axiom 2 mission brings together three Arab astronauts on board the ISS for the first time in history
Saudi Arabia’s historic mission signifies the nation’s commitment to advancing space exploration under the ambit of the Vision 2030 national agenda
The mission is part of the kingdom’s astronauts’ programme, which was launched on September 22 last year
Yahsat’s net income and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation both grew by 35 per cent and 4 per cent respectively year-on-year
The UAE will become the 10th country to perform a spacewalk on the ISS, while Al Neyadi will be part of the 261st spacewalk
The announcement follows the likely hard landing of the Hakuto-R Mission 1 spacecraft carrying the previous Rashid rover, to the lunar surface
Engineers from ispace are working on a detailed analysis of the telemetry data acquired until the end of landing sequence to find out the root cause
The rover is currently orbiting the Moon at an altitude of about 100km at the perilune and about 2,300 km at the apolune
The 6U nanosatellite will be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
The iSpace lander carrying the rover executed the lunar orbit insertion manoeuvre on March 21
The Emirati astronaut and his Crew-6 teammates docked with the ISS after a 24-hour flight to begin the longest Arab space mission
“I can’t be happier than this,” states Al Neyadi, in his first message from the International Space Station
The mission, dubbed Crew-6, will include a series of experiments and research
The partnership aims to build and operate strategic earth observation capabilities within the UAE
The six-month long mission will include several scientific experiments and research endeavours
Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Al Qarni will travel to the International Space Station during the second quarter of 2023
Deimos is the smaller and outermost of Mars’ two natural satellites
The mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station
The Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
The expected lifetime of the satellite is three years during which it will monitor X-ray emissions from celestial bodies and other phenomena
The rover, that lifted off on December 11, is scheduled to land after a four-month cruise phase
The mission will study different aspects of the lunar surface
Upon landing, the Rashid rover will explore the characteristics of the lunar soil
The MoU enables exchange of space data to support various fields of common interest such as climate change, disaster management, emergency response, food security and agriculture
The new launch date remains contingent on the weather status and other conditions
Upon landing, the Rashid rover will explore the characteristics of the lunar soil, the petrography and geology of the Moon
The Rashid rover is now ready for the final integration process with the launch vehicle
Dimorphos never posed a risk to Earth, but was merely a target asteroid to showcase this deflection technique
NASA launched its DART spacecraft in November of 2021 with the express purpose of colliding with an asteroid about the size of a football stadium at 14,000 miles per hour