Kazakhstan Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 05 Jul 2024 20:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Kazakhstan Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Kazakhstan joins China’s ILRS moon base program https://spacenews.com/kazakhstan-joins-chinas-ilrs-moon-base-program/ https://spacenews.com/kazakhstan-joins-chinas-ilrs-moon-base-program/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:05:25 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=466057 3D render showing a planned moon base, energy, communications and transportation infrastructure on the sunlit lunar surface, including orbiting satellites and a distant Earth in the background.
3D render showing a planned moon base, energy, communications and transportation infrastructure on the sunlit lunar surface, including orbiting satellites and a distant Earth in the background.

Kazakhstan has signed a memorandum on cooperation on the China-led ILRS and will also explore commercial use of each other’s spaceports.

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When flying over the semi-desert grasslands of Kazakhstan, crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) usually follow the long line of the Syr Darya (river) to find the spaceport […]

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]]> 457728 Lake Tengiz, Kazakhstan As Seen From Orbit https://spacenews.com/lake-tengiz-kazakhstan-as-seen-from-orbit/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:50:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=15159

In orbit above the semi-desert grasslands in Kazakhstan, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station spotted one of the few features that stand out. Lake Tengiz is the only large […]

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]]> 457622 Kazakhstan’s First Earth Observation Satellite Heads for Kourou https://spacenews.com/kazakhstans-first-earth-observation-satellite-heads-for-kourou/ Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:52:10 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=10534

DZZ-HR, the Republic of Kazakhstan’s first Earth observation satellite, has just left Airbus Defence and Space’s cleanrooms in Toulouse and is now on its way to the Guiana Space Centre […]

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