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Space technology takes off: Egypt’s new economic frontier

Sherif Sedky, CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency, has announced details about the establishment of a joint-stock company for manufacturing satellite components, a company for marketing the agency’s products, and the launch of an electronic platform enabling users to browse and purchase satellite images. Sedky stated that these achievements come within the framework of Egypt’s …

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Russia vetoes US-backed UN resolution to ban nuclear weapons in space

CNN  —  Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia described the UN draft as a “dirty spectacle” and a “cynical …

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No space left for bodies, says gravedigger who’s overseen half of Gaza’s burials

CNN  —  Saadi Baraka wakes at dawn and works until dusk, digging on his knees in the dirt as he tries to bury Gaza’s dead with dignity in a cemetery he says has run out of room. The graveyard at Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, dotted with the green and gray of shrubs and tombs, …

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Mars is rotating more quickly, NASA mission finds

CNN  —  Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet. The now-retired InSight was armed with a suite of instruments, including antennae and a radio transponder called RISE, or the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment. The instruments were used to track Mars’ …

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Sci-fi ideas that could change the future of space exploration

In the past year, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid and the James Webb Space Telescope revealed dazzling new insights about the universe. Beginning decades ago as ideas that seemed more like science fiction, these missions took years of research and testing to come to life. Technological advances …

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First Saudi woman to be dispatched to space in 2023

On Thursday, the Saudi Space Commission announced the launch of the Kingdom’s program for astronauts, which aims to qualify experienced Saudi cadres to enter long and short-term space flights and participate in future scientific experiments related to space, and send the first female Saudi astronaut to space in 2023. The Kingdom’s program for astronauts includes …

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