Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service, has officially launched in Cape Verde, marking it as the latest African country to approve and adopt the low-Earth orbit LEO satellite-based connectivity solution. This development brings the total number of countries where Starlink is operational to 117. Elon Musk announced the milestone on the microblogging platform X, emphasising its …
On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong almost met his fate while simulating a lunar landing. This was a little over a year before he would become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was flying in a machine called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston …
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Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration, H.E. Dr Badr Abdelatty, welcomed H.E. Dr Tidiane Ouattara, the President of the Council of the African Space Agency and Dr Sherif Sedky, the CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency EgSA, in a meeting to reinforce Egypt’s leadership in regional space initiatives and promote collaboration across Africa. Welcoming …
With the prospective launch of the country’s first satellite, BOTSAT-1, in 2025, Botswana is positioning itself to maximise the opportunities in the rapidly growing space industry. The development of BOTSAT-1 is particularly remarkable given that Botswana currently lacks both a space agency and a space policy framework to drive and coordinate such space activities. This …
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