Day: July 16, 2024

Key Highlight The Italy-Africa Space Conference will focus on education and training, space applications and services for a sustainable future, and international partnerships. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Honorable Antonio Tajani, inaugurated the Italy-Africa Space Conference, highlighting its importance. The event, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of …

The Italy-Africa Space Conference to Focus on Three Fundamental Pillars. Read More »

NASA is waiting to see if there will be “schedule impacts” for its next astronaut mission aboard SpaceX after a rocket failure last week, the agency said in a recent statement. SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket had a rare anomaly during a Starlink satellite launch on Thursday (July 11). The second stage on the rocket failed …

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Failure Forces NASA To Evaluate Astronaut Launch Schedule For ISS. Read More »

In recent months there has been a gradual build-up of excitement regarding the approach of a new comet with the moniker, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, cataloged officially as C/2023 A3. Comet Tsuchinchan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was first discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory’s XuYi Station in China on Jan. 9, 2023, then lost and discovered a second time 44 …

A Comet Predicted To Light Up The Sky In 2024 May Already Be Doomed. Read More »

Just as we were beginning to think “The sun has been rather quiet of late,” it silences the critics with an explosive X-class flare, the most powerful class of solar flare. The solar flare from sunspot AR3738 occurred late Saturday night (July 13) at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UT on July 14) and NASA’s Solar …

Sun Unleashes Powerful X-class Solar Flare Triggering Radio Blackouts Over Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. Read More »