On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab orbited Earth for six years and supported three crewed missions during which astronauts conducted hundreds of science experiments. Skylab was considered a success overall, but it got off to a pretty rocky start. It lifted off on a Saturn V rocket from …
On This Day in Space: May 14, 1973: NASA Launches Skylab Space Station. Read More »
NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with a vital and rapidly evolving field. That person is David Salvagnini, who was serving as NASA’s chief data officer. “Artificial intelligence has been safely used at NASA for decades, and as this technology expands, …
NASA Appoints 1st AI Chief To Keep Agency On ‘The Cutting Edge’. Read More »
SpaceX’s Starlink fleet survived solar storms over the weekend. Starlink broadband satellites, which number nearly 6,000 in orbit, all came through after intense solar activity sparked auroras and other signs of space weather across the world, including unusually far into the southern United States. “All Starlink satellites on-orbit weathered the geomagnetic storm and remain healthy,” …
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Doing Just fine After Weekend Solar Storm, Company Says. Read More »
The Kenya Space Agency board and management launched the KSA Strategic Plan 2023-2027 on Monday, 13th May 2024. According to a news report by the Kenya Space Agency, the CS Defence H.E. Hon. Aden Duale officiated the launch event, accompanied by the CDF General Charles Kahariri and senior officers in the Ministry of Defence and …
Kenya Space Agency Launches Strategic Plan 2023-2027. Read More »
A historic solar storm impacted Earth throughout the night on Friday, 10 May 2023 and continued into Saturday, 11 May 2024. The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Space Weather Centre issued several G4 warnings and, for the first time since 2003, one G5 warning was issued. The Geomagnetic Storm Scale indicates the severity of …
Southern African Skies Light Up with Aurora as Historic Solar Storm Collides with Earth. Read More »
SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 GMT on May 13). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to …
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites From Florida. Read More »
The future of cellular data transfer could lie in “curving” light beams midair to deliver 6G wireless networks with blazing-fast speeds — bypassing the need for line of sight between transmitter and receivers. In a new study published March 30 in the journal Nature’s Communications Engineering, researchers explained how they developed a transmitter that can …
Scientists Could Make Blazing-Fast 6G Using Curving Light Rays. Read More »
NASA’s forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could use the grisly death of stars ripped apart by black holes to hunt the universe’s first population of stellar bodies. These early stars, referred to (somewhat confusingly) as Population III (Pop III) stars, were very different from the sun and other stars seen in the cosmos today. That’s …
According to the news report released by KSA, the joint efforts with the Nakuja project team from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has led to a significant milestone in field tests of the Nakuja 3.5 rocket. The Nakuja series of rockets is part of a research …
KSA, JKUAT, and JICA Achieve Milestone in Nakuja 3.5 Rocket Field Tests. Read More »
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have discovered a new cosmic “exhaust vent” funneling hot gas away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole that sits at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The newly discovered vent is linked to a chimney-like formation orientated at a right angle in the …
