July 7, 2025

On July 7, 1961, the U.S. Air Force launched a satellite called Discoverer 26 into orbit with a classified payload. It lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 4:29 p.m. local time (2329 GMT). Discoverer 26 was part of a series of reconnaissance or spy satellites whose missions were kept top secret […]

On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter’s moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted Lysithea from Mount Wilson Observatory in California, where he had previously discovered three more Jovian moons. This was the tenth moon astronomers had found at Jupiter. As of June 2017, 69 moons have been found orbiting Jupiter. Lysithea

Zimbabwe’s satellite internet sector is undergoing a significant shift, largely driven by the arrival of Starlink, the Low Earth Orbit LEO satellite internet provider operated by SpaceX. According to the latest subscriber statistics by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe POTRAZ, VSAT subscriptions, under which Starlink services are classified, rose from 3,814 in