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  • Replanting projects turn global cities into lush green spaces

    Today, any greenery in Riyadh is almost lost in between the multi-lane highways and gigantic interchanges, but within nine years the city plans to have added 7.5 million trees. The reforestation is part of an $11-billion green initiative that also includes creating 3,000 parks in the Saudi capital.

  • Saudi Space Commission to launch scholarship program leading to employment

    The Saudi Space Commission has announced the launch of its first program for foreign scholarships ending with employment in the field of space. This program provides educational opportunities for Saudi students of space sciences in the most prominent 30 universities around the world, the commission said in a statement on Wednesday.

  • Russia and Saudi Arabia prepare for joint manned space mission -statement

    Russia is training cosmonauts from Saudi Arabia as both countries are preparing for a joint manned space mission, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak was quoted as saying in a government statement on Tuesday.

  • Israel Israir Flight 661 Tel Aviv to Dubai Fails to Get Saudi Airspace Permit

    A flight by an Israeli airline has failed to get a permit to travel through Saudi Arabia’s airspace and has been waiting in Tel Aviv for nearly five hours, the carrier said. Israir Airlines & Tourism Ltd.’s flight 661 was to depart at 9 a.m. local time, and it isn’t known why the permits haven’t been given, a spokeswoman for the airline said in a text message. The Foreign Ministry is dealing with the issue, she said.

  • Clubhouse App Creates Space for Open Talk in Middle East

    While the app is currently limited to iPhone users, who make up a small and affluent subset of the Middle East, Clubhouse may draw more government scrutiny once it releases an Android version, which is expected as early as this month. In Iran, a bootleg Android version is already gaining steam.

  • Red Sea Development Company Comments on NASA’s Photo of Islands from Space

    One of the astronauts of the special crew of “Expedition 64” from the International Space Station of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) took several pictures of hundreds of islands located on the northwestern coast of Saudi Arabia. These included 90 islands that belong to the Red Sea Project, which is tipped as the Future of the Global Tourism Destinations.

  • Israel Aerospace, UAE weapons maker team up on anti-drone tech

    Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said on Thursday it would jointly develop an advanced drone defence system with the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned weapons maker EDGE. Israel and the UAE formalised relations last year, brought closer by commercial interests and concern over Iran.

  • Saudi Space Commission Reviews Plans for Exploration Missions to Mars, Moon

    The Saudi Space Commission is reviewing the track of work put into sending exploratory missions to both the Moon and Mars. Concerned authorities in the kingdom have prepared several programs for building national cadres and expanding investment in the space field. Commission Chairman Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz announced that the agency completed all stages of its establishment and concluded many partnerships and agreements both locally and internationally.

  • Dammam and Khobar taken from the International Space Station.

    A recent night photo of Dammam and Khobar taken from the International Space Station.

  • Lockheed Overtakes Boeing as Largest US Aerospace and Defense Firm

    While Lockheed — which on Tuesday reported $65.4 billion in 2020 sales — has long been the world’s largest defense contractor, revenue from Boeing’s commercial airplane business has combined with its military work to keep it atop the defense-and-aerospace category for decades.