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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will possibly emerge as an exporter of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) during 2009. This is according to the Riad Kahwaji, CEO of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (Inegma).
Read MorePresident-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.
Read MoreThe European Commission has confirmed all four operators that applied to deliver mobile satellite services across Europe will move forward to the next stages of the selection procedure.
Read MoreItaly has certified the U.S. Raven UAV (RQ-11B) for use by military and civilian operators in Italian air space.
Read MoreAll ready to go and then — no go. Lockheed Martin was told by NASA to stop work on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) satellite, due to a protest filed by Boeing with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the December 2, $1.09 billion satellite award.
Read MoreMr. Stanis³aw Gaw³owski, Secretary of State of the Ministry of the Environment, and Prof. Mieczys³aw Ostojski, Director-General of Poland’s Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, met a EUMETSAT delegation led by the organization’s Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm.
Read MoreLatvia has signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT.
Read MoreIn an important advancement for personal and commercial spaceflight, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has received a license for vertical and horizontal launch from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
Read MoreDr. Ali R. Ebadi, MEASAT’s Senior Vice President of Space Systems Development, has been elected to be the Chairman of the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (RRB).
Read MoreEUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 66th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, from December 9th through 10th.
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