China's Shijian-21 space debris mitigation spacecraft displayed a capacity that only the US has so far practised. It docked a dead Chinese spacecraft to shift its geostationary orbit.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele signed six trade agreements worth $100 million.
NASA unveiled the new lunar rovers that astronauts will use to go around the moon; the Artemis project.
Israel tested its Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system outside the Earth’s atmosphere where two Arrow 3 interceptors fired at the same target in space.
China has built a research facility that simulates the low-gravity environment on the moon.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) will field satellites to detect manoeuvrable Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) during flight.
The Turkish Intelligence Ship TCG Ufuk (A-591) was officially commissioned at the Istanbul Shipyard in Tuzla. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Defence Hulusi Akar, President of Defence Industries Professor Ismail Demir, and STM Defence General Manager Özgür Güleryüz also spoke at the ceremony.
Turkey’s first pocketqube Grizu-263A started to send signals three hours after being launched into space.
Gilmour Space Technologies has completed a 75-second test-fire of its new rocket engine, which the company plans to launch in Queensland in the second half of 2022. According to the company’s CEO, Adam Gilmour, the procedure involved the main engine that will power the first and second stages of its three-stage Eris rocket.
Chinese lunar probe Chang’E-5 discovered water on the moon according to scientific research published in “Science Advances”.
On Monday, December 27, Russia launched its third and final demonstration flight of the Angara A5 rocket. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre are developing and building Angara. It will take the place of several existing launch vehicles. The rocket, on the other hand, crashed to the ground.
ASELSAN starts the YAKUD Project to apply its Air Defence Command Control design, radar, communication, simulation, and mechanical design to space.
Russia’s new S-550 anti-ICBM (Inter-Continental Range Ballistic Missiles) air defence system has successfully passed state trials and entered combat service.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be launched on Friday to observe one million miles away from Earth.
