On June 17, 1985, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on NASA’s STS-51-G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who became the first Arab and first Muslim in space. And because he was a prince in the House of Saud, he became the first member of a …
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Senegal has officially joined the International Space4Ocean Alliance, a new global coalition aimed at harnessing space based technologies for the preservation and sustainable management of the world’s oceans. The announcement was made during the alliance’s official launch on 9 June 2025, held at the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France, on the margins of the …
As Elon Musk’s Starlink moves toward entry into the South African market, astronomers are increasingly concerned about the impact of its low-Earth orbit LEO satellites on radio astronomy, particularly at the Square Kilometre Array SKA-Mid located in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape. The SKA, one of the most powerful radio telescopes on the …
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