The Russian-led draft resolution failed, as it did not secure sufficient votes in favour among the 15 council members. Seven nations supported it (Algeria, Ecuador, China, Guyana, Mozambique, Russia, and Sierra Leone), while seven voted against (France, Japan, Malta, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States). Switzerland abstained. For a resolution…
The communication system of the satellite will also be tested for the next 5 days, Pakistani space scientist Dr. Khurram Islamabad: Pakistan’s first satellite space mission i-cube has successfully reached the lunar orbit. The Chang’e-6 mission successfully placed the Pakistani satellite iCube Qamar into lunar orbit. After deployment of iCube Qamar, all subsystems will be…
Due to the negative Russian vote, the Security Council failed to adopt last month’s text, which received 13 votes in favour, with China abstaining. The draft resolution was introduced by United States and Japan and co-sponsored by over 60 nations. Assembly Vice-President Ahmad Faisal Muhamad opened the debate by reading a message from Dennis Francis,…
The satellite was designed and developed by IST in collaboration with Shanghai University of China and Sparco Photo: Sparco Islamabad / Karachi: In a historic event, Pakistan’s first satellite mission from China was launched to the moon at 2:28 PM, which will reach the moon’s orbit in 5 days. Dr Khurram Khurshid, a member of…
(Photo: APP) Islamabad: Pakistan’s historic Lunar Mission (IQ-Q) will be launched into space from China on Friday. Based in Islamabad Institute of Space and Technology According to (IST), the satellite iCube-Q has been developed by IST in collaboration with China’s Shanghai University and Pakistan’s National Space Agency Sparco. The iCube-Q orbiter is equipped with two…
The Security Council rejected the draft resolution, introduced by Japan and the United States, by a vote of 13 in favour to one against, with one abstention (China), that would have had the 15-member organ call on “all States, in particular those with major space capabilities, to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful…
After nearly a year of brutal civil war between rival militaries, food production has been hit and communities face acute shortages of other essential resources such as water and fuel. More than eight million people are believed to have been uprooted from their homes with tens of thousands killed or wounded. The World Health Organization…
UN tops NASA’s interstellar playlist Before launching into space in 1977, the United States space agency, NASA, asked the UN to provide materials for a playlist to record an album – the “Golden Record” – to be sent to the stars. In fact, the first words on the vinyl record itself are those of the…
(Photo: SLAC Laboratory) California: After two decades of tireless work, scientists and engineers finally built the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera. To better understand the changing night sky, the Milky Way galaxy and our solar system, a team at SLAC, a local laboratory in California, has teamed up with other scientists to…
America has offered to give humans the first dinner in space, but those who want to know the price first because they will be blown away. According to foreign media, the American luxury space tourism company has set up a program for the first time in the history of the world to have a dinner…
