Key Highlights After a year of approval, Starlink’s operation is now available in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is the 100th connected country to Starlink’s operations. In June 2023, Sierra Leone became the fifth African country to grant Starlink an operational license. At the time, David Moinina Sengeh, the Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education …
A bright pink koi fish has been spotted swimming across the southern sky. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope (VST) snapped a beautiful new view of the Gum 3 nebula, located about 3,600 light-years from Earth. The nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that plays a key role in the …
Cosmic ‘Koi Fish’ Swims Through Starry Sea In Stunning Telescope Photo. Read More »
The same gigantic sunspot that was responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May whipped up a legendary one for Mars a few days later. On May 20, data from Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft showed that an estimated X12 solar flare — the strongest type on the flare classification scale — erupted …
Radiation Will Be A Real Challenge For Mars Colonists, Powerful Solar Storm Shows. Read More »
Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station today (June 13) and you can watch it live online for free. NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Matthew Dominick will perform the spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA). The action is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) and last about 6.5 hours. …
Watch NASA Astronauts Collect Microbe Samples During ISS Spacewalk Today. Read More »
SpaceX is scheduled to launch 22 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Thursday (June 13). The Starlink satellites will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opens at 4:46 p.m. EDT (2046 GMT). SpaceX had planned to …
SpaceX Launching 22 Starlink Satellites From Florida June 13. Read More »
