Analysis – Taiwanese rocket startup may be early test of Japan’s space hub plans
– TiSpace, a Taiwanese rocket startup, aims to become the first foreign company to launch a rocket from Japan as early as 2025. They plan to launch a suborbital sounding rocket from Hokkaido. – This would be a test of Japan’s plans to become a space hub in Asia and boost its domestic space industry. […]
NASA telescope spots a super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star
– The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a massive exoplanet orbiting the star Epsilon Indi A, located 12 light-years from Earth. – Dubbed a “super Jupiter”, the planet is about the same size as Jupiter but has six times the mass. It has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. – Remarkably, it takes the planet over 100 years, […]
Iran releases cargo of oil tanker St Nikolas, shipping source says
Iran has released the oil cargo of a Greek-owned, Marshall-Islands-flagged tanker it seized in the Gulf of Oman earlier this year, a shipping source told Reuters on Thursday. The vessel, M/T St. Nikolas, is still being held by Iran, the source added. It was laden with 1 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil destined for […]