In the annual budget released by India’s Ministry of Finance on February 1, the Department of Space has been allocated roughly US$1.91 billion — a modest increase of 3.5% over last year's funding. The new NewSpace India Limited gets US$96 million. @isro
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@moonshotspaceco to launch 2021 accelerator program, invest up to AU$200k for 5 startups, using its own funds. Congrats, @Troy_McCann!
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Japan’s space agency @JAXA, along with Japanese companies Taiyo Wire Cloth, NGK Insulators, Technosolver Corporation, and Koyo Materica Corporation, have jointly developed a metal mesh for onboard deployable reflectors.
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.@OrbitalOps to build space habitat Voyager Station, by 2030, which will be assembled in space and be able to produce artificial gravity
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Earth observation consortium EO-ALERT, led by @deimosimaging, endorses Addvalue’s Inter-Satellite Data Relay Service for near real-time transfer of data.
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Singapore startup, @EquatorialSpace, “verifies its technology with first in-flight proof-of-concept”. The vehicle was the first in-flight demonstration of the Company’s proprietary solid fuel for hybrid rocket motors, the HRF-1.
#newspace#rocketlaunch
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An interesting contribution from @LAPAN_RI's Yunita Permatasari on Indonesia's perspective the regulation of space mining and the utilization of space resources.
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.@SpaceChain, @AlbaOrbital & Addvalue have formed a consortium and have received GBP440,000 grant to develop a decentralised satellite infrastructure (DSI) with a blockchain payload.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, in a phone call with @elonmusk, has invited @SpaceX to consider Indonesia as a potential space launch site for the company.
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