August 8, 2024

The Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency has partnered with Proforce Galaxies Limited to unveil a constellation of four satellites, three optical satellites and one SAR satellite, to enhance Nigeria’s capacity in agriculture, defence, and satellite technology. The satellites will be instrumental in precision agriculture, earth monitoring and data collection, and other sectors, including […]

SpaceX is now targeting Aug. 26 for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a crewed flight to Earth orbit that will feature the first-ever private spacewalk. The news, which the Polaris Dawn team announced today (Aug. 7) via a post on X, firms up a previously vague window; the most recent target for the groundbreaking mission

China has begun building a huge satellite-internet constellation in low Earth orbit. A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China today (Aug. 7) at 2:42 a.m. EDT (0642 GMT), carrying 18 Qianfan (“Thousand Sails”) satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). Everything went well, according to the China

NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on Jan. 19. LRO has been trying to ping SLIM’s retroreflector, a dome-shaped, cookie-sized structure that’s affixed to the lander’s back, just beneath its solar panels.

SpaceX‘s next astronaut mission won’t get off the ground this month after all. Crew-9, SpaceX‘s ninth operational flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, had been targeted to lift off on Aug. 18. But it has been pushed back to no earlier than Sept. 24, the agency announced today (Aug. 6). “This adjustment