On the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28), which will be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12, 2023, the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technologies will hold a global startup competition (Make it in the Emirates Forum) for technology enterprises focused on sustainable development and decarbonization.

Doctor of Technical Sciences, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan Rahman Esedullayev proposed to introduce fuel-free installations for additional electricity production in the country, TDH reports.

The American company SpaceX canceled on Monday the first launch into orbit of a prototype of the Starship spacecraft for technical reasons. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.

The giant Starship rocket system, which was built by SpaceX for manned missions to the Moon and Mars, is being prepared for the first launch, Reuters reports.

The launch of the first Turkish-made IMECE observer satellite successfully took place from the American Vandenberg cosmodrome, Anadolu reports. The launch was postponed several times due to weather conditions.

American automaker Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, has opened a new subsidiary in China with an authorized capital of $ 2 million. This followed the announcement by the company about the construction of a new plant for the production of Megapack batteries, reports Investing.com.

The automatic interplanetary station JUICE of the European Space Agency has been successfully launched into orbit and is already conducting an independent flight to the largest planet of the Solar System — Jupiter, the press service of the operator Arianespace reports.

The American company Microsoft will open a multi-regional hub in Kazakhstan, which will cover the countries of Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Mongolia and Pakistan. Localization of Microsoft's activities will allow Kazakhstan to become a center of attraction for technologies and advanced solutions on a regional scale, the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry (ICRIAP) said in a statement on Monday Kazakhstan following the meeting of the head of ICRIAP Bagdat Musin and CEO of Microsoft in Kazakhstan Sergey Leshchenko.

Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies are planning to lay an underwater fiber-optic Internet cable that will connect Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Reuters reports.

China's first floating offshore wind power platform has been towed to its place of operation – an offshore oil field located 136 kilometers off the coast of Wenchang City in Hainan Island Province in the south of the country.