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The fourth International Conference on Advanced Geospatial Science & Technology, TeanGeo2024, concluded on October 24, 2024, at the Laico Hotel in Tunis after three days of intensive discussions, presentations, and knowledge-sharing. Organised by the Regional Center for Remote Sensing of North African States (CRTEAN) under the authority of Tunisia’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific […]

Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has temporarily suspended its recent increase in monthly subscription fees for Nigerian users. This suspension follows backlash and regulatory scrutiny over the price adjustment implemented on October 1, 2024. In a communication sent to subscribers on Thursday, Starlink explained its decision and assured customers charged

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday evening (Oct. 26). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT). As to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about eight minutes

Nearly two months after Boeing’s Starliner returned to Earth without its astronauts, NASA is still working on the issues that complicated the spacecraft’s first crewed test flight, agency officials said on Friday (Oct. 25). Starliner‘s Crew Flight Test (CFT) concluded on Sept. 6, with the capsule touching down in New Mexico autonomously. NASA astronauts Butch

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Space Agency Council convened in Paris today for the first time to strengthen the African-European space collaboration. This historic meeting signals a new phase in Africa-European space relations, fostering collaborative projects and deeper strategic ties. H.E. Dr Tidiane Ouattara, President of the Council of the African Space

China has added a new batch of three spacecraft to a classified series of orbiting Yaogan satellites. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 9:09 p.m. EDT on Oct. 22 (0109 GMT and 9:09 a.m. Beijing time on Oct. 23), rising into overcast skies above the spaceport in southwestern

NASA’s retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space, on Thursday (Oct. 24). The two-armed, two-legged robotic testbed launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Discovery’s final mission in 2011.

Four space station crewmates are safely back on Earth after an extended mission and a long wait for the weather to cooperate. SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps all with NASA and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida on Friday

The European Space Agency (ESA) is making strides in its efforts to boost space safety and sustainability. ESA is promoting the Zero Debris Charter, which aims to increase international efforts and cooperation to solve Earth’s growing space junk problem. And the agency now has attracted well over 100 signatories to the charter, following a ceremony

SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket just hit the century mark for the year. A Falcon 9 launched a batch of next-gen spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) (Oct. 24) from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:13 p.m. EDT (1713 GMT; 10:13 a.m. local time). The clandestine mission, known as NROL-167, was