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Space42 opens new programme for Emirati students

Students get exposure to space operations, AI, as UAE builds its future space workforce

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The programme, held in conjunction with local universities and schools, offers participants academia-aligned missions supported by dedicated mentors

Abu Dhabi images Cat’s Eye Nebula 3,000 light-years off

The final image combines 724 exposures taken over nine days and more than 36 hours

Known formally as NGC 6543, the Cat’s Eye Nebula lies in the constellation Draco, about 3,000 light-years from Earth.

Jinnah-1: Pakistan’s first rover headed for the Moon

17-year-old names rover that will explore lunar south pole aboard China’s Chang’e-8

Tayyab Karim, a 17-year-old from Bahawalnagar, was named as the winner for proposing the name ‘Jinnah-1’ for Pakistan’s first lunar rover.

Space42 H1 revenue rises 15% to $260 million

Cash topped $1.1 billion while the company’s contracted backlog reached $6.3 billion

Space42 revenue rises 15%, satellite-to-phone services near rollout

SpaceX rocket stage believed to have slammed into Moon

Four-tonne piece of rocket expected to leave a lunar crater, but no danger to Earth

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launches toward the moon from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, February 26, 2025.

6 min darkness: Saudi's first total eclipse in 75 years

Saudi Arabia prepares for one of the century’s longest total solar eclipses

Saudi Arabia braces for six-minute total solar eclipse in 2027, first in over 75 years

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