The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a license for test flights of the reusable Starship prototype spacecraft built by Elon Musk's SpaceX, which is planned to be used in interplanetary missions.

The demand for space technologies, such as the satellite-based imagery and analytics, has surged recently, as such information is being used in a wide range of measures to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) told Sputnik in an interview