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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

The Angola ICT Forum ANGOTIC is a global forum and integrated exhibition platform dedicated to accelerating the digital transformation of Angola and Africa. It aims to foster the creation of a Digital Single Market and to promote collaboration across the international technology community. Each year, it attracts thousands of technology experts and business leaders from

On June 15, 2011, Iran launched the Rasad-1 satellite into orbit around Earth. Rasad-1 (the name means Observation-1 in Farsi) is an imaging satellite that was sent into a 162-mile orbit by an Iranian Safir rocket. Rasad-1 made about 15 orbits per day, and sent back pictures to Earth. This was Iran’s third satellite and

Elon Musk has expressed strong interest in possibly launching SpaceX rockets from South Africa’s Denel Overberg Test Range near Arniston, a move that could strengthen the country’s emerging role in the global space economy. Following a high-profile diplomatic exchange between former President Donald Trump and South African officials, the proposal was raised during a closed-door

Jaguar Space, LLC, a U.S.-based space science company, and Space in Africa, the leading source of intelligence and data analytics on the African space industry, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU to collaborate on a pioneering initiative to advance space based agricultural research and enhance the global representation of emerging space nations. Under this

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has joined forces with the European VLBI Network EVN, the world’s most sensitive array of radio telescopes, to capture the universe in unprecedented detail. This partnership marks a significant step forward in astronomical research, combining cutting edge technology from the Southern and Northern Hemispheres to push the boundaries of what

Eutelsat Group has officially inaugurated its state of the art Earth station at the Luanda Bengo Special Economic Zone ZEE, marking a major milestone in Angola’s telecommunications and digital transformation journey. Developed through a strategic partnership between OneWeb Angola and Eutelsat, the facility functions as a vital communications gateway for the Eutelsat OneWeb NGSO (Non-Geostationary

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet’s atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere of Venus down to the surface. At first, scientists believed that the probe had transmitted until contact with

SpaceX will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on the private Ax-4 mission Wednesday morning (June 11), and you can watch the action live. Ax-4 is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). That’s a