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Space program overview Malaysia, in 3 editions.

The entry for Malaysia 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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  • has a national space policy and program focused on the areas of remote sensing (RS), navigational services, and telecommunications to support domestic economic sectors;
  • seeks to promote a domestic space industry;
  • acquires, manufactures, and operates satellites;
  • conducts research in RS capabilities and space sciences such as astronomy, atmospherics, space environment, and weather;
  • has an astronaut training exchange program with Russia and works with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of the ESA, individual ESA member states, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US (2025)

has a growing national space policy and program focused on the areas of remote sensing (RS), communication, and navigational services services, and telecommunications to support domestic economic sectors; also seeks to promote a domestic space industry; acquires, manufactures, and operates satellites; conducts research in RS capabilities and space sciences such as astronomy, atmospherics, space environment, and weather; has an astronaut training exchange program with Russia and has relations works with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of the European Space Agency and some of its ESA, individual ESA member states, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the UK, and the US (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
(2025)

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

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