ENTOTO, ETHIOPIA – High above the crowded streets of Addis Ababa, among fields where farmers lead oxen dragging wooden plows, sits Ethiopia’s space program.

London-based Inmarsat hopes to get its latest next-generation spacecraft into orbit at the end of the month.

It is an idea that every small child has had at some point. Instead of sending up rockets into space, why not simply build a huge lift.

China will build a comprehensive network to detect pollution of the land, sea and air by 2020, employing satellites, drones and remote sensors to monitor the environment.

In what is seen as an acknowledgement of its cost-effective technology, India's space agency will launch a US satellite using its polar satellite launch vehicle.

Interplanetary travel could be a step closer after scientists confirmed that an electromagnetic propulsion drive, which is fast enough to get to the Moon in four hours, actually works.

A major design review of Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) was completed last week clearing the stage for work on the world's most powerful rocket.

As the climate changes and as humans push in on habitat, global wildlife is declining.

UAE-designed and built craft will set off in 2020 as part of a project aimed at inspiring a new generation within the region