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Space program overview Bahrain, in 3 editions.

The entry for Bahrain published Space program overview in 3 editions of 36, from 2023 to 2025. The text changed in 2 editions. Each is shown as published. Space program overview in every entry.

editions changed the text
2
the first edition with it
2023
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Space program overview” (2023 to 2025).

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  • focuses on promoting space research and science, applying space-related technologies, and building capacity in the fields of satellite manufacturing, tracking, control, data processing and analysis, and remote sensing;
  • cooperates with a variety of foreign agencies and commercial entities, including those of India, Italy, Japan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UK, the UAE, and the US;
  • also a member of the Arab Space Coordination Group (2025)

space program in nascent stages and is focused focuses on developing the capabilities to build and operate satellites; the NSSA’s mission includes promoting space research and science, technology, applying space-related technologies, and research, building capacity in the fields of satellite manufacturing, tracking, control, data processing and analysis, and remote sensing, developing space-related programs and space policy, and facilitating international cooperation; sensing; cooperates with a variety of foreign agencies and commercial entities, including those of India, Italy, Japan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UK, the UAE, and the US; also a member of the Arab Space Coordination Group, established by the UAE in 2019 (2024)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in the Space Programs reference guide
Group (2025)

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Bahrain: Space program overview.” The World Factbook, 2023–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/bahrain/space-program-overview.

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