Canadian Air Force Forms Space Division
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) established the Space Division, called 3 CSD, to support the operations and activities of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
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Space
Space
Boeing's Starliner has completed its second test flight
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched and completed a planned orbital insertion burn to send it to the ISS for its second test flight.
Space
Turkey Carrying Its Power in Space to Washington
This year, Turkish Aerospace (TUSAŞ), together with Türksat and Profen companies, will participate in the world's largest satellite fair, Satellite 2022, held in Washington D.C., the capital of the USA. TUSAŞ will showcase its New Generation Electrical Communication Satellite, TÜRKSAT 6A and GÖKTÜRK Renewal satellite projects.
Space
China's Shijian-21, spacecraft, pulled a defunct satellite well above graveyard orbit
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.
Space
Bilateral Relations
Space Cooperation Between Turkey and El Salvador
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele signed six trade agreements worth $100 million.
Space
Rover for NASA’s Artemis Project
NASA unveiled the new lunar rovers that astronauts will use to go around the moon; the Artemis project.
Space
Weapon / Missile
Israel Tests Two Arrow 3 Anti-Ballistic Missiles Simultaneously at Space
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.
Space
Country
China Built an Artificial Moon Research Centre on Earth
China has built a research facility that simulates the low-gravity environment on the moon.
Space
Defence Politics
Sensors
The U.S. to field Eyes in the Sky to detect HGVs
The Space Development Agency (SDA) will field satellites to detect manoeuvrable Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) during flight.
Navy / Maritime
Space
TCG Ufuk is officially in the Inventory
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.
Space
Turkey’s first pocketqube is in space and operational
Turkey’s first pocketqube Grizu-263A started to send signals three hours after being launched into space.
Space
Engine and Transmission
Gilmour Tests the ‘Most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia’
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.
Space
China Discovered Water on the Moon
Chinese lunar probe Chang’E-5 discovered water on the moon according to scientific research published in “Science Advances”.
Space
Russia’s Angara A5 Rocket failed at final Demonstration mission
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.
