Selcuk Bayraktar Fergani, chairman of the board of the Turkish aerospace company Baykar Yönetim, announced that the first satellite will be launched into space in 2024 as part of the Fergani Uzay (Ferghani Space) project.
The parliament of Kazakhstan approved the participation of the country's military personnel in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Middle East and South Sudan. According to him, up to 430 Kazakh military personnel, including special forces personnel, will be sent to the territories of Syria, Palestine, Israel and Sudan.
The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will be in this country on a state visit on January 23-25 at the invitation of the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) launched at 16:49 local time. It also features Turkey's first astronaut, Alper Gezeravci.
In response to the French Senate's decision to impose sanctions against Baku, the Azerbaijani parliament instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take measures to recognize the sovereignty of the French independent territories of Kanaka, Maoxi Nui and Corsica.
The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which was supposed to carry the Axiom-3 mission to the International Space Station, has been delayed for a day.
In Bashkortostan, after Fail Alsinov was imprisoned for 4 years on charges of extremism, thousands of local residents protested. Clashes broke out between the police and citizens, tear gas and stun grenades were used against the population. In one of his speeches in the Bashkir language, Fail called the Central Asians "black people" and demanded that they go to their own country.
Turkey's first astronaut Alper Gezeravci will fly to the International Space Station on the night of January 18 as part of the third Axiom (Ax-3) commercial mission.
At the next meeting of the topographical working group in Botken, Kyrgyzstan, on January 10-16, an agreement was reached on the delimitation (determining the direction and position of common borders) and demarcation (setting the state border with border markers) of 38 kilometers of the Kyrgyz-Tajik state border.
The UAE government introduced a visa-free regime for citizens of Uzbekistan for up to 30 days from February 16.