COMMENT | NANCY QIAN | As geopolitical tensions rise, competition for the cutting-edge science and talent that underpins advanced technology has heated up. The United States, China, and other major powers now regard leadership in areas like AI, semiconductors, quantum technologies, and biotechnology as central to military capability, economic security, …
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MOSCOW | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia opposes the deployment of weapons in space, stressing that Moscow sees no threat related to recent discussions about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. During his annual press conference, Putin dismissed speculation surrounding the 3I/ATLAS comet. “This is our secret …
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As Uganda plans to start a space agency in 2026; a look at the promise and peril NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | Uganda plans to start its own space agency in 2026 to tap into one of the fastest growing domains in the global economy. The space agency …
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BEIJING | Xinhua | China’s commercial space sector has already notched up fruitful achievements and is moving forward to an even better future, according to guest speakers on the latest episode of China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk show hosted by Xinhua News Agency. A few months ago, Chinese space …
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA | Xinhua | Russia will “respond” if any nation attempts to militarize and deploy weapons in space, Yury Borisov, head of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, said Friday, local media reported. “Russia has firmly and consistently maintained its position against the deployment of any weapons into space,” Borisov …
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Milan, Italy | THE INDEPENDENT | Edgar Mujuni, one of the three pioneering engineers behind Uganda’s first satellite PearlAfricaSat-1, has been honored at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan as one of the four African young professionals recognized as an Emerging Space Leader. This prestigious award, conferred by …
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NEW YORK | XINHUA | Crew of U.S. Polaris Dawn mission have completed a spacewalk on Thursday, marking the first time commercial astronauts have space-walked from a commercial spacecraft, according to SpaceX. The spacewalk started at around 6:13 a.m. Eastern Time (1013 GMT). Two astronauts of the four-member all-civilian crew …
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LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | Two U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts find themselves on an unexpectedly extended mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as technical issues plague their return spacecraft, Boeing’s Starliner. The intended short test mission has stretched beyond 60 days, with no definite return …
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MOSCOW | Xinhua | Russia’s Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after a two-day flight, said the country’s state space corporation Roscosmos on Saturday. The spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan, on Thursday, has docked with the …
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JIUQUAN | Xinhua | China successfully launched SQX-1 commercial carrier rocket into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Sunday. The rocket blasted off at 3 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the launch site, sending the Di’er-1 satellite into the planned orbit. It was the sixth flight …
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