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…
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 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…
The Indian space agency ISRO has decided to send a space mission to the Sun after Chandrayaan-3’s landing on the moon, under which Aditya L-1 will be launched on September 2. Foreign media reports have revealed that India’s space agency ‘ISRO’ will launch its first solar mission on September 2 to conduct an analytical study…
Moon landing mission image released by Indian Space Research Organization Indian space mission Chandrayaan-3 lands on the moon, Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram has landed on the surface of the south pole of the moon. India became the first country in the world to reach the South Pole of the Moon and the fourth country in the…
File photo After the destruction of the Russian space mission sent to the moon, the health of the Russian scientist and astronomer deteriorated. According to foreign media, on Saturday, the space mission sent by Russia to the moon crashed on the moon, and a few hours later, the Russian scientist’s condition worsened and he had…
For millennia, civilisations have looked up to the sky pondering the origin and mysteries of the Moon. Ground-based observations enabled by the invention of the first telescopes opened a new chapter in understanding Earth’s celestial companion, and for humankind itself. ‘One small step’ Following the birth of space exploration nearly 70 years ago, the Moon…
NEOs are asteroids or comets that come relatively close to the Sun, to about 50 million kilometres from Earth’s orbit. Some of them, ‘potentially hazardous objects’ (PHOs), come even closer – in interstellar terms – with a minimum distance of less than 7.5 million kilometres. Measuring more than 140 meters across, the PHOs have the…
