Day: September 28, 2024

The 75th Ordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Regional African Satellite Communications Organisation (RASCOM), recently held in Praia, Cape Verde, reaffirmed the organisation’s mission to strengthen collaboration among African satellite communications operators. RASCOM continues championing regional cooperation to bolster Africa’s satellite infrastructure, a critical step towards self-reliance in the fast-evolving digital landscape. …

Excerpts From RASCOM’s 75th Board of Directors Meeting In Cabo Verde. Read More »

China has another sea launch under its belt. One of the country’s Jielong-3 rockets (also known as Smart Dragon-3) lifted off from a floating platform off the coast of eastern China on Monday (Sept. 23) at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 GMT on Sept. 24). The Smart Dragon-3 carried eight remote-sensing satellites to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) …

Chinese Rocket Launches 8 Satellites To Orbit From Ship At Sea. Read More »

NASA cleared its next astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch on Friday (Sept. 27), a weekend liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and break in a new launch pad for SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch two Crew-9 astronauts, NASA veteran Nick Hague …

SpaceX, NASA ‘Go’ For 1st Astronaut Launch To ISS From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Pad. Read More »

A commercial Chinese rocket maker has completed its fourth solid rocket launch, sending five satellites into orbit. CAS Space’s Kinetica-1 (also known as Lijian-1) solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 7:33 p.m. EDT on Sept. 24 (2333 GMT; or 7:33 a.m. Beijing time on Sept. 25). Aboard …

China’s CAS Space Launches 5 Satellites With Its 4th Rocket. Read More »

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile over the course of over 13 years, from 2010 to 2023, as part of …

Record-breaking Milky Way Map Showcases 1.5 Billion Objects. Read More »