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On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space during this mission. In the other capsule was cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who set the record for the longest solo spaceflight […]

Setting the stage for deeper regional connectivity, the General Manager of the Management Office for the National Space Programme (GGPEN), Dr Zolana Joao, hosted Telecom Namibia’s CEO, Dr Stanley Shanapinda, at its Luanda headquarters this Tuesday. The high level meeting focused on leveraging ANGOSAT-2’s capabilities to enhance connectivity in Namibia while exploring joint initiatives in

Senegal’s space programme achieved a significant milestone on June 13 2025, as a high-level delegation from the Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation visited the University of Montpellier to inspect the assembly of GAINDESAT-1B, the nation’s second satellite. The working visit allowed Senegalese officials

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America’s first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent 6 days in space deployed two communications satellites for Indonesia and Canada. Ride became the first woman to operate Canadarm, the shuttle’s

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, is now officially live in Guinea-Bissau. This marks the company’s seventh entry into the West African market and sets the stage for broader expansion across the continent. The development follows the approval granted in April 2025 by the country’s National Regulatory Authority for Information and Communication Technologies

A high-level delegation from Angola’s National Oil and Gas Agency ANPG, led by Chairman of the Board of Directors Paulino Jerónimo, has paid an official visit to the headquarters of the Management Office for the National Space Programme GGPEN. The visit focused on reviewing existing collaborations and identifying new opportunities to harness space technology for

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

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

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Tereshkova, a cosmonaut with then-Soviet Russia, launched into space on the Vostok 6 mission and orbited Earth 48 times in 70.8 hours. That’s nearly three days alone in space The goal of Vostok 6 was to better understand the female