Day: March 19, 2024

Government To License Starlink To Operate In Ghana – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.

The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced the government’s plan to license the satellite internet network Starlink to operate in Ghana. According to her, this was part of the government’s efforts to address the internet disruption in the country. Briefing Parliament on the issue of internet disruptions on March 18, she said …

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Commercial Rocket Seeking To Be Japan’s First To Boost Satellite Into Orbit Is Blown Up Right After Liftoff.

A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit was intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff Wednesday morning in central Japan following a problem that’s still under investigation. Space One was aiming to be Japan’s first private sector success at putting a satellite into orbit. Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off in a …

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SpaceX Launches 22 Starlink Satellites From California In Dusky Evening Liftoff.

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (March 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off tonight from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local California time; 0228 GMT on March 19). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about …

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Deep-Space Astronomy Sensor Peers Into The Heart Of An Atom.

Scientists have taken an instrument originally designed to study huge celestial objects in the cosmos and repurposed it to investigate the world on an infinitely smaller scale. With this instrument, they managed to probe the heart of the atom. The team wanted to understand quantum-scale changes that occur within unstable atoms, and realized there’s a …

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Mercury Slammed By Gargantuan Eruption From The Sun’s Hidden Far Side, Possibly Triggering ‘X-ray Auroras’.

A gigantic, fiery eruption around 40 times wider than Earth recently exploded from the sun’s hidden far side. The eruption hurled a massive cloud of plasma into space that later smashed into Mercury, scouring the planet’s rocky surface and potentially triggering “X-ray auroras” on the unprotected world. The eruption was likely triggered by a powerful solar flare, …

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