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The spaceflight record books have just been rewritten. Over the weekend, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a new mark for most total days spent off Earth, eclipsing the 878 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes of his countryman Gennady Padalka, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. Kononenko launched to the International Space Station (ISS) …

879 days! Russian Cosmonaut Breaks Record For Total Time Spent In Space. Read More »

Theme: The Role in closing Africa Poverty Gap. The Newspace event will come to Luanda in 2024. NewSpace Africa Conference is a high-level gathering of industry leaders, commercial space companies, investors, and other key stakeholders in the African space and satellite industry. Globally, a new era is emerging, characterized by private sector-led efforts towards the …

Newspace Africa Conference 2024. Read More »

A pair of Chinese rockets launched 11 mobility services satellites for an automaker and nine further, diverse satellites into orbit late Friday. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China at 6:37 p.m. Eastern (2337 UTC) Feb. 2, followed hours later by a Jielong-3 solid rocket launching from …

China Launches 20 Satellites On Separate Inland and Sea Rocket Launches. Read More »

The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) officially launched its experimental satellite, Nexsat-1, using China’s small orbital launch vehicle, Jielong-3 (Smart Dragon-3), from the coast of Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China, on February 3, 2024. Following the successful launch, EgSA confirmed the reception of initial signals from the test satellite through their agency website. …

Egypt Launches Experimental Satellite, Nexsat-1. Read More »

Early this year, using T-Mobile’s network, SpaceX successfully sent and received text messages using new Starlink direct-to-cell satellites that deliver broadband connectivity to smartphones anywhere in the world, bypassing traditional infrastructure. While some will consider this an innocuous development, it’s a monumental moment for communication technology and geopolitics alike. In effect, it means the satellite …

Satellite Phone Networks Can Democratize Global Communication . Read More »

In a press release by Q-KON, the telecommunication company has announced that following the incorporation of Eutelsat OneWeb LEO satellite connectivity into their Twoobii Smart Satellite Services, the first bank branch of a prominent digital bank has been successfully launched on the service, delivering continuous connectivity that is yielding tremendous benefits for both bank personnel …

Q-KON Successfully Implements Africa’s First Fully Operational Eutelsat OneWeb LEO Satellite Service. Read More »

In a news report by Nyasa Times, Daka Space Technologies Ltd (DST) secured a EUR 10,000 grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom (UK) for its groundbreaking project, “Launching the Malawi Space Stars: A space technology awareness campaign to inspire the next generation of space leaders.” The partnership between Daka Space …

Daka Space Technologies Secures EUR 10,000 To Advance Space Education in Malawi. Read More »

“The scientific breadth and impact of the survey is quite overwhelming; it’s hard to put into a few words.” The first data released to the public from the eROSITA sky survey comprises an X-ray view of half the sky over Earth, encompassing almost a million high-energy cosmic sources, including over 700,000 supermassive black holes. This …

X-ray Image Of Universe Reveals Almost 1 Million High-Energy Objects: ‘These Are Mind-Blowing Numbers’. Read More »

The spacecraft was captured with the ISS robotic arm at 4:59 a.m. EST (0959 GMT). Northrop Grumman’s robotic Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Thursday morning (Feb. 1), with the rendezvous streamed live. The Cygnus launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday …

Private Cygnus Cargo Ship Arrives At The ISS Carrying 8,200 Pounds Of Cargo. Read More »

The mission will fire its main engines in space for the first time on Wednesday (Jan. 31), over two years since leaving Earth. NASA’s asteroid-hopping Lucy mission is finally getting fired up in space for its trip to the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids, which follow Jupiter as it orbits the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 31), the …

NASA’s Lucy Asteroid Probe To Fire Main Engines In Space For 1st Time This Week. Read More »