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  • Air Force Breakthrough Brings Space-Based Solar Power One Step Closer

    What’s the best way to power the remote bases of the future? The U.S. military has looked at all sorts of options, from algae-based diesel to small nuclear reactors. On Tuesday, the Air Force Research Lab, or AFRL, announced a breakthrough in a long-envisioned method: solar power collected in space and streamed to Earth in the form of microwaves.

  • Saudi defenses destroy two Houthi drones targeting Abha airport, SPA says

    Saudi Arabia’s air defences on Sunday destroyed two drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis toward the Abha international airport in the southwest of the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. State-run SPA cited a statement from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi group which controls most of northern Yemen.

  • Saudi crown prince launches Jeddah Central Project, SPA confirms

    Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has launched the plan and main features of the Jeddah Central Project, previously known as New Jeddah Downtown, with total investments of 75 billion riyals ($19.99 billion), the state news agency (SPA) said on Friday. "The ambitious 75 billion Saudi riyals project will develop 5.7 million square metres of land overlooking the Red Sea to be financed by the Public Investment Fund and from local and international investors," SPA said in a statement.

  • Geneva Prosecutor Closes Spain-Saudi Money Laundering Probe

    Geneva prosecutors closed a probe into five people suspected of money laundering in a case that looked at donations by the late king of Saudi Arabia to fellow royal Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain. They had opened the investigation in 2018 following press reports into whether Juan Carlos de Borbon Y Borbon, who abdicated from the Spanish throne in 2014, had received illicit bribes linked to a high-speed train contract in Saudi Arabia won by a Spanish-Saudi consortium, the prosecutor’s office said.

  • Lower energy investment could spark supply crisis – Saudi minister

    Saudi Arabia's energy minister said on Monday that oil markets could face a dangerous period as reduced investments in exploration and drilling threaten to cut crude production by 30 million barrels per day by 2030. Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud, speaking at a budget conference in Riyadh, also said that top oil exporter Saudi Arabia would be one of the few countries that could raise its oil production capacity in 2022.

  • Satellite images, expert suggest Iranian space launch coming

    The likely blast off at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport comes as Iranian state media has offered a list of upcoming planned satellite launches in the works for the Islamic Republic’s civilian space program, which has been beset by a series of failed launches. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard runs its own parallel program that successfully put a satellite into orbit last year.

  • Saudi Arabia’s SPARK breaks ground on 277,000 square metre drilling site

    The new complex will provide infrastructure for 1,200 drilling and workover employees. Aramco and Horizon have already signed a 22-year contract for the project.

  • Spain and Saudi Arabia join forces to redesign post-Covid tourism

    Spain is the second-most visited country in the world, receiving 83.7 million international visitors in 2019, and is renowned for its destinations, infrastructures and its world-class tourism firms. During the COVID crisis, Spain has been at the forefront of international efforts to restore mobility as an early adopter of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. Spain is a founding member of the UNWTO and is now investing in a new complex that will house the headquarters of the organisation.

  • Spartan Race returns to Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia’s first Spartan Race took place in the mountains of Al-Soudah during the Asir Season in 2019, drawing more than 1,500 competitors and spectators. The race returns to the Kingdom on January 21, 2022, taking place at Dirab Park in Riyadh from 7am to 4pm.

  • Saudi Space Commission signs agreement with French National Centre for Space Studies

    Saudi Space Commission has signed a joint cooperation agreement in the field of the peaceful use of outer space with the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). It comes amid French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Saudi Arabia.