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On July 18, 1980, India launched its first satellite into orbit. This made India the seventh nation to launch an indigenously built satellite. The Rohini RS-1 satellite lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 8 a.m. local time. It was a small, experimental satellite weighing only about 77 lbs. 35 kilograms, and its […]

The Government of Cabo Verde, in collaboration with SatNav Africa JPO, successfully hosted the Africa Satellite Navigation Conference Pre-Event from 16-17 July 2025 in Parque Tecnológico Arquipélago Digital de Cabo Verde. With the compelling theme Leveraging GNSS Technology for Enhanced Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Africa, the hybrid event drew hundreds of participants, including representatives

On July 17, 1962, the American test pilot Bob White broke the world record for the highest altitude flight. He took off from Edwards Air Force Base in a rocket-powered X-15 aircraft and made it to an altitude of 314,750 feet. That’s almost 60 miles At the time, the Air Force considered the edge of

On July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the moon. Apollo 11 launched from NASA’s historic launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts lifted off on top of NASA’s gigantic new Saturn V rocket. Four days

ATLAS Space Operations, a leading provider of Ground Station as a Service, has announced the activation of its latest antenna in Rwanda, marking a strategic expansion of its global ground network. This development significantly enhances the ability of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 COSMIC-2 to deliver critical data to the National

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto. When it finally arrived, it took some amazing photos of the dwarf planet’s surface. Most notably, the photos revealed that Pluto has a huge, heart-shaped plain, tall mountains and

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample return mission sent to retrieve some lunar soil and bring it back to Earth. It launched just three days before Apollo 11, which brought the first astronauts to the lunar surface.

On July 12, 1989, the European Space Agency launched an experimental communications satellite named Olympus-1. Olympus-1 was the largest civilian telecommunication satellite ever built at the time, and some nicknamed it LargeSat. It weighed 5,758 lbs (2,612 kilograms) at launch, according to ESA. The huge satellite malfunctioned in 1991 and was lost in orbital space

The Kenya Space Agency KSA, in partnership with STAR.VISION Aerospace has successfully concluded the Spaceborne AI Algorithm Rideshare Programme, marking the end of the final phase of an initiative launched in June 2024. Over the past year, 58 students from 14 Kenyan universities designed, tested, and deployed AI algorithms aboard the STAR.VISION’s Earth Observation EO

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live television from Europe to the United States. This was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days after the launch, Telstar 1 transmitted the world’s first transatlantic television signal. This demonstrated that transmitting information